Content-specific vulnerability of recent episodic memories in Alzheimer's disease

Endel Tulving's episodic memory framework emphasizes the multifaceted re-experiencing of personal events. Indeed, decades of research focused on the experiential nature of episodic memories, usually treating recent episodic memory as a coherent experiential quality. However, recent insights int...

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Main Authors: Bainbridge, W.A (Author), Berron, D. (Author), Düzel, E. (Author), Grande, X. (Author), Maass, A. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2021
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520 3 |a Endel Tulving's episodic memory framework emphasizes the multifaceted re-experiencing of personal events. Indeed, decades of research focused on the experiential nature of episodic memories, usually treating recent episodic memory as a coherent experiential quality. However, recent insights into the functional architecture of the medial temporal lobe show that different types of mnemonic information are segregated into distinct neural pathways in brain circuits empirically associated with episodic memory. Moreover, recent memories do not fade as a whole under conditions of progressive neurodegeneration in these brain circuits, notably in Alzheimer's disease. Instead, certain memory content seem particularly vulnerable from the moment of their encoding while other content can remain memorable consistently across individuals and contexts. We propose that these observations are related to the content-specific functional architecture of the medial temporal lobe and consequently to a content-specific impairment of memory at different stages of the neurodegeneration. To develop Endel Tulving's inspirational legacy further and to advance our understanding of how memory function is affected by neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, we postulate that it is compelling to focus on the representational content of recent episodic memories. © 2021 The Authors 
650 0 4 |a Alzheimer disease 
650 0 4 |a Alzheimer Disease 
650 0 4 |a Alzheimer's disease 
650 0 4 |a cognitive defect 
650 0 4 |a Cognitive Dysfunction 
650 0 4 |a episodic memory 
650 0 4 |a Episodic memory 
650 0 4 |a human 
650 0 4 |a Humans 
650 0 4 |a Magnetic Resonance Imaging 
650 0 4 |a Medial temporal lobe 
650 0 4 |a Memorability 
650 0 4 |a Memory representations 
650 0 4 |a Memory, Episodic 
650 0 4 |a nerve tract 
650 0 4 |a Neural Pathways 
650 0 4 |a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging 
650 0 4 |a temporal lobe 
650 0 4 |a Temporal Lobe 
700 1 |a Bainbridge, W.A.  |e author 
700 1 |a Berron, D.  |e author 
700 1 |a Düzel, E.  |e author 
700 1 |a Grande, X.  |e author 
700 1 |a Maass, A.  |e author 
773 |t Neuropsychologia