Science and Consciousness Review has a new feature article on how the brain allows us to revisit past times or predict the future, and how this sense can break down after brain injury.
The article is by new SCR staffer, Alice Kim, who works in the lab of pioneering memory researcher Endel Tulving.
Tulving developed the concept of autonoetic consciousness, a ‘feeling of remembering’ that allows us to distinguish when information is coming from memory compared to when it is coming from the senses.
Kim has written an article looking at how autonoetic consciousness helps memory, and how it is damaged in a patient with ‘chronesthesia’, a condition where the awareness of personal past and future is lost, despite a sense of the present being intact.
As well writing for SCR, Kim has also created a wonderful online archive of every Tulving publication, from 1959 (wow!) to the present.
As an aside, Science and Consciousness Review has now fully relaunched after a period of rebuilding since a nasty database crash last year.
Everything seems in perfect working order, so head on over if you want to keep tabs on all things consciousness related.
Link to ‘Which brain regions enable us to remember our past and anticipate our future?’.
Link to SCR front page.
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