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Autobiographical memory and the self in time: brain lesion effects, functional neuroanatomy, and lifespan development

Levine, Brian·2004·Brain and Cognition
DOI 10.1016/s0278-2626(03)00280-x
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Autobiographical remembering reflects an advanced state of consciousness that mediates awareness of the self as continuous across time. In naturalistic autobiographical memory, self-aware recollection of temporally and spatially specific episodes and generic factual information (both public and personal) operate in tandem. Evidence from both laboratory and real-life studies, however, suggests that these two processes can be dissociated. This paper reviews aging, lesion, and functional neuroimaging research on the anatomical substrates of autobiographical memory processes using a new measure, the Autobiographical Interview, and prospective collection of autobiographical material. Results indicate that autobiographical recollection is mediated by a distributed fronto-temporo-parietal system, with the anteromedial prefrontal cortex positioned to integrate sensory information with self-specific information. The emergence of autobiographical recollection at around age four coincides with the timing of prefrontal regressive cortical and progressive white matter changes that may support the development of this high-level capacity.

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  • The construction and elaboration of fictitious scenes, and personal future events, should draw on semantic knowledge.

    “If semantic memory forms a critical component of past episodic retrieval (Levine, 2004;Greenberg and Verfaellie, 2010), and underlies much of internally driven cognition (Binder et al., 2009), it follows that the construction and elaboration of fictitious scenes, and personal future events, should also draw on semantic knowledge (Irish et al., 2012).”

    From Considering the role of semantic memory in episodic future thinking: evidence from semantic dementia (2012) · cites this paper as Levine, 2004

  • Most prior laboratory-based EM studies used cue words or images to trigger memory retrieval and mental time travel to the past in a controlled fashion.

    “Most prior laboratory-based EM studies used cue words or images to trigger memory retrieval and mental time travel to the past in a controlled fashion [5,6,12,31,60,80,87,103–105].”

    From First-person view of one’s body in immersive virtual reality: Influence on episodic memory (2019) · cites this paper as [12]

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Authors
Levine, B.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Levine, Brian
ORCID
Levine, Brian
Venue
Brain and Cognition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2004-06
Volume
55
Issue
1
Pages
54-68
ISSN
0278-2626 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0278-2626(03)00280-x
OpenAlex
W2111514547
Cited by
189
References
156
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 12
FWCI
4.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
  • Brain and Cognition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
Keywords
autobiographical memory, self-awareness, autobiographical recollections, brain lesions, aging, lifespan development, autobiographical interviews, white matter development
MeSH terms
Aging, Brain Damage, Chronic, Brain Mapping, Ego, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Internal-External Control, Memory, Neuroanatomy, Self Concept, Prefrontal Cortex

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