Space, Time, and Memory

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locationsMemories are not organized by a single arbitrary dimension, such as mere association. Instead, manydimensions have been taken to be part of the structure of memory. Of these, space and time stand out:all personal experience can in principle be indexed by where and when specific events occurred, andboth scientific evidence and common sense suggest that the way we relate different events together inmemory draws on these dimensions. For instance, to remember what one ate for lunch last Thursday,one might call up a memory of where one was, or retrace the events of the day leading up to lunch.Some nuts-and-bolts questions arise immediately, starting with whether the spatial or the temporaldimension is primary. Or rather, do we rely on both equally? Do we represent them separately orjointly? But there are bigger questions with broad implications: What makes space and time such centralstructures in our cognitive world, and what is the conceptual nature of these structures? Thesequestions are deeply related to one another, though they span multiple fields and methodologies,touching on philosophy, psychology and neuroscience. Space, Time, and Memory explores three key questions: first, the role of space and time as structures that organize memory, second, theories of the nature of memory itself that draw on space and time, and finally applications of questions about the structure of memory to debates about perception, decision-making, and artifical intelligence.

Table of Contents:
1: Ian Phillips: What has episodic memory got to do with space and time? 2: Nora S. Newcombe & Kim V. Nguyen: Developmental Sequences Constrain Models of the Mind 3: György Buzsáki and János Végh: Space, time and memory 4: John O'Keefe: The Hippocampal Cognitive Map and Episodic Memory 5: Sara Aronowitz and Lynn Nadel: Space, and not Time, Provides the Basic Structure of Memory 6: Sarah Robins: A Place for the Memory Trace, 7: Charan Ranganath: Memory, Space, Time, and the Hippocampus 8: Michael E. Hasselmo, Jennifer C. Robinson, Patrick A. LaChance, Jacob H. Wilmot, L. Kelton Wilmerding, Samantha Malmberg, Mahir Patel, Quan Do, G. William Chapman: Coding of space and time for memory function 9: Felipe De Brigard: Simulationism and Memory Traces 10: EJ Green: Can We Perceive the Past? 11: Alexandria Boyle: Experience Replay Algorithms and the Function of Episodic Memory 12: Ida Momennejad: Memory and Planning in Brains and Machines: Multiscale Predictive Representations

About the Author :
Lynn Nadel is Regents Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science and Psychology. His work focuses on the functions of the hippocampus in memory and spatial cognition, leading to significant contributions in the study of stress and memory, sleep and memory, memory reconsolidation, and the mental retardation observed in Down syndrome. He has promulgated, with collaborators, two highly influential theories in cognitive neuroscience: the cognitive map theory of hippocampal function, and the multiple trace theory of memory. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Sara Aronowitz is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. She studies how memory and imagination contribute to the ability to learn over large timescales and through changing environments. She was previously a professor of philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Arizona. She completed PhD in philosophy at the University of Michigan and a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychology at Princeton University.

Review :
...an excellent collection of chapters from experts in the area of memory and law. The chapters are written in a highly accessible way and provide up-todate reviews of the literature that would appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in issues surrounding memory and law. The authors make a point to offer concrete suggestions, where possible, for the application of psychological research to real-world legal contexts, and many authors provide applied examples from legal decisions and court transcripts to support empirical points. Many of the chapters also include suggestions for future research directions that have the potential to help focus the efforts of researchers to address the pressing issues in this field of study.