ABSTRACT
Autobiographical memory is certainly reconstructive and dynamic, but because reconstruction is based on similar experiences and plausible inferences, it may lead to accurate recall, and this recall may stabilize over time. Episodic memory is memory of an experience that is located in a specific place at a specific time, such as my honeymoon trip to Venice. It seems easy to define autobiographical memory as conscious memories of our personal experiences – events, people, and places we can recall and communicate about, either in private reminiscence with ourselves or in conversations with others. When Tulving first distinguished semantic and episodic memories, he argued that episodic memories and autobiographical memories are the same, in that both are located in a specified time and place and are accompanied by a sense of reliving or re-experiencing the event, what he calls autonoetic consciousness.
