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On the origins of autobiographical memory
Ian Q Whishaw1, Douglas G Wallace
1Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alta., Canada T1K 3M4. whishaw@uleth.ca
Behavioural Brain Research
|January 16, 2003
Abstract:
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.