Storing events to retell them (Commentary on Suddendorf and Corballis: 'The evolution of foresight')

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2011-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/1108.4167v1

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30, 3 (2007) 321-322

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Neurons and Cognition

jld-07051403

Scientific paper

Episodic memory is certainly a unique endowment, but its primary purpose is
something other than to provide raw material for creative synthesis of future
scenarios. Remembered episodes are exactly those which are worth telling. The
function of episodic memory, in our view, is to accumulate stories that are
relevant to recount in conversation.

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