Autobiographical events and imagined futures

Question 1

autobiographical events

Answer 1

personally lived experiences that involve an overlap between episodic and semantic memories

Question 2

how do we retrieve and become conciously aware of autobiographical events

Answer 2

engage in mental time travel and retrieve episodic memories from the hippocampus and semantic memories from the frontal and temporal lobes

Question 3

mental time travel

Answer 3

the ability to mentally travel through time, remebering thoughts and feelings from the recent or distant past which is unqiue to episodic memory

Question 4

possible imagined dutures

Answer 4

hypothetical experiences and situations that an individual has the ability to create and conceptualise in their mind

Question 5

how are semantic and episodic memories involved in constructing possible imagined futures

Answer 5

the brain regions that are involved in the retrieval of autobiographical experiences are also activated when people construct possible imagined futures, therefore to construct these people draw on elements of past experiences from their semantic and episodic memories