ReviewPsychonomic bulletin & review2019
Embodied memories: Reviewing the role of the body in memory processes.
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- Does Body Memory Exist? A Review of Models, Approaches and Recent Findings Useful for Neurorehabilitation.Brain sciences · 2024Review
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- The role of bodily self-consciousness in episodic memory of naturalistic events: an immersive virtual reality study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Intrinsic hippocampal connectivity is associated with individual differences in retrospective duration processing.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
- Journeying to the past: time travel and mental time travel, how far apart?Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The role of gestures in autobiographical memory.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
This review aims at exploring the role of the body and its sensorimotor processes in memory. Recent theories have suggested that memories can profitably be seen as mental simulations consisting in the reactivation of sensorimotor patterns originally associated with events at encoding, rather than amodal mental representations. The sensorimotor model of memory (SMM) claims that the body is the medium where (and through which) sensorimotor modalities actually simulate the somatosensory components of remembered events, and predicts that memory processes can be manipulated through manipulation of the body. The review analyzes experimental evidence in favor of the SMM and the claim that the body is at stake in memory processes. The review then highlights how, at the current state of research, the majority of this evidence concerns the effect of body manipulations on memory processes rather than memory representations. It considers the need for a more circumstantial outline of the actual extent to which the body is capable of affecting memory, specifically on some important areas still unexplored, such as the sense of recollection. Resulting strengths and limitations of the SMM are discussed in relation to the more general debate on the embodied cognition.
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