ABSTRACT
There are many levels at which one can answer this question. On one level, theories from cognitive psychology provide an account of how certain forms of processing facilitate episodic memory formation, outlining the conditions necessary to promote these forms of processing and the many variables that can influence retrieval of episodic memories after they have formed. At another level, evidence from neuroscience provides information about the neural structures that support memory formation and characterises the operations carried out by these neural structures. The view of memory formation
presented here reflects a cognitive neuroscience approach that relates these two levels of description. The aim is to understand how memory formation and its behavioural manifestations arise from the workings of underlying neural structures. Specifically, the chapter addresses neural correlates and processes that play a role in encoding events into episodic memory.
