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What Aphantasia Can Teach Us About Episodic Memory

Talk by Margherita Arcangeli (Institut Jean Nicod)

Abstract:
A recent proposal is to characterise aphantasia as an episodic memory condition. Aphantasics show difficulties in recalling details of situations from their distant and recent past. They are less confident about their episodic memories and also seem to be less emotionally affected by them. But can we really say that aphantasics have a poor episodic memory? The aim of this talk is to analyse in depth four strands of research (i.e., pictorial memory tests, memory accuracy, hippocampal activity, and SDAM) that challenge this idea and emphasise the necessity for a more in-depth understanding of episodic memory in aphantasics.