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... > disposition > cognition > memory > long-term memory > declarative memory > personal semantics

Preferred term

personal semantics  

Definition(s)

  • Knowledge that a person possesses about his or her past (personality, autobiographical facts, knowledge of repeated events, autobiographically significant concepts).

Broader concept(s)

Related concept(s)

Synonym(s)

  • autobiographical fact
  • personal semantic memory
  • semantic self-knowledge

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Cermak, L. S., & O’Connor, M. (1983). The anterograde and retrograde retrieval ability of a patient with amnesia due to encephalitis. Neuropsychologia, 21(3), 213–234. https://doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(83)90039-8

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Grilli, M. D., Bercel, J. J., Wank, A. A., & Rapcsak, S. Z. (2018). The contribution of the left anterior ventrolateral temporal lobe to the retrieval of personal semantics. Neuropsychologia, 117, 178‑187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.06.002

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Grilli, M. D., & Verfaellie, M. (2014). Personal semantic memory: Insights from neuropsychological research on amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 61, 56–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.06.012

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Kopelman, M. D., Wilson, B. A., & Baddeley, A. D. (1989). The autobiographical memory interview: A new assessment of autobiographical and personal semantic memory in amnesic patients. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 11(5), 724–744. https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638908400928

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Renoult, L., Armson, M. J., Diamond, N. B., Fan, C. L., Jeyakumar, N., Levesque, L., Oliva, L., McKinnon, M., Papadopoulos, A., Selarka, D., St Jacques, P. L., & Levine, B. (2020). Classification of general and personal semantic details in the Autobiographical Interview. Neuropsychologia, 144, 107501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107501

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  • • Renoult, L., Davidson, P. S. R., Palombo, D. J., Moscovitch, M., & Levine, B. (2012). Personal semantics : At the crossroads of semantic and episodic memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(11), 550–558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.09.003

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  • • Renoult, L., Tanguay, A., Beaudry, M., Tavakoli, P., Rabipour, S., Campbell, K., Moscovitch, M., Levine, B., & Davidson, P. S. R. (2016). Personal semantics : Is it distinct from episodic and semantic memory? An electrophysiological study of memory for autobiographical facts and repeated events in honor of Shlomo Bentin. Neuropsychologia, 83, 242‑256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.08.013

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  • • Warrington, E. K., & McCarthy, R. A. (1988). The fractionation of retrograde amnesia. Brain and Cognition, 7(2), 184–200. https://doi.org/10.1016/0278-2626(88)90029-2

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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Reviewed by

  • Louis Renoult

In other languages

  • sémantique personnelle

    French

  • connaissances sémantiques de soi
  • fait autobiographique
  • mémoire sémantique personnelle
  • souvenir sémantique personnel

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