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Memory, Amnesia, and the Episodic/Semantic Distinction

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Imagine that our present civilization develops more or less peacefully and that the world is still intact a thousand years from now. Imagine further that you could visit the future world and bring back with you, among other things, the answer to one crucial question about human memory. What would be the question, and why?

This chapter was supported by a Special Research Program Grant from the Connaught Fund, University of Toronto, by an Ontario Graduate Fellowship to D. L. Schacter, and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Grant No. A8632 to E. Tulving.

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Schacter, D.L., Tulving, E. (1982). Memory, Amnesia, and the Episodic/Semantic Distinction. In: Isaacson, R.L., Spear, N.E. (eds) The Expression of Knowledge. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7890-7_2

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