Daniel schacter of time and autobiography

In this entertaining and informative book (not to mention truly interdisciplinary in that it mixes literature, painting and neurology), the USA psychologist Daniel Schacter attempts to identify the various kinds of memory that humans need in order to operate correctly: to learn skills and acquire habits, to recognize objects and people, to form concepts, to recall episodes, etc.

Schacter believes that each is implemented in a different memory system, each having different implications for the rest of the brain.

The memory system that we usually refer to is the "explicit memory".

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Daniel schacter of time and autobiography summary

Implicit memory operates outside our awareness. Semantic memory handles conceptual knowledge. Procedural memory is used to learn skills and acquire habits. Then there is Tulving's episodic memory (that is also responsible for the "autobiographical" feeling).

Rephrasing Tulving's ideas on encoding and decoding, Schacter makes the important distinction between field memory (you are in it) and observer mem