1A type of long-term memory that involves conscious recollection of previous experiences together with their context in terms of time, place, associated emotions, etc.
those results suggest that participants were using episodic memory to recall the presented words in all conditions
1.1count nounA conscious memory of a previous experience.
the hippocampus is critically involved in forming episodic memories
three-year-olds were capable of forming an episodic memory of the task
Definition of episodic memory in US English:
episodic memory
noun
Psychology
1A type of long-term memory that involves conscious recollection of previous experiences together with their context in terms of time, place, associated emotions, etc.
those results suggest that participants were using episodic memory to recall the presented words in all conditions
1.1A conscious memory of a previous experience.
the hippocampus is critically involved in forming episodic memories
three-year-olds were capable of forming an episodic memory of the task