On the origins of autobiographical memory.
Tolving argues that one form of explicit memory, autobiographical memory is uniquely human and has no nonhuman animal antecedents. We suggest that a form of memory used by humans and nonhuman animals, dead reckoning, shares a common limbic structure, including the cingulate cortex and hippocampus, and involves similar processes in recognition of self-action. Thus, it may be homologous to, and an antecedent of, autobiographical memory in humans.
Whishaw
Ian Q
IQ
Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alta., Canada T1K 3M4. whishaw@uleth.ca
Wallace
Douglas G
DG
D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D001931:Brain Mapping; D006179:Gyrus Cinguli / Q000502:physiology*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006702:Homing Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D011340:Problem Solving / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D013045:Species Specificity