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1Witnessing, Remembering, and Testifying: Why the Past is Special for Human BeingsPerspectives on Psychological Science 2 (15). 2020.The past is undeniably special for human beings. To a large extent, both individuals and collectives define themselves through history. Moreover, humans seem to have a special way of cognitively representing the past: episodic memory. As opposed to other ways of representing knowledge, remembering the past in episodic memory brings with it the ability to become a witness. Episodic memory allows us to determine what of our knowledge about the past comes from our own experience and thereby what pa…Read more
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AlisonGopnikAndrew N. MeltroffWords, Thoughts, and Theories1997MIT Press0-262-07175-4268 $30.00Trends in Cognitive Sciences 1 (3): 122. 1997.
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