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. 2018 Jan:41:e20.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001418.

Episodic memory solves both social and nonsocial problems, and evolved to fulfill many different functions

Raymond A Mar  1 , R Nathan Spreng  2
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Episodic memory solves both social and nonsocial problems, and evolved to fulfill many different functions

Raymond A Mar et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan.

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The episodic memory system is flexible and complex, and likely evolved in response to a wide range of survival-relevant problems in our evolutionary past, both social and nonsocial. Episodic memory allows us to recollect and infer details that may have seemed trivial on encoding, but are now known to be relevant. This memory aids humans in navigating their uncertain environment.

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