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Mnemicity: a cognitive gadget?

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Episodic representations can be entertained either as “remembered” or “imagined”—as outcomes of experience or as simulations of such experience. Here, we argue that this feature is the product of a dedicated cognitive function: the metacognitive capacity to determine the mnemicity of mental event simulations. We argue that mnemicity attribution should be distinguished from other metacognitive operations (such as reality monitoring) and propose that this attribution is a “cognitive gadget”—a d...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1177/17456916221141352

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
Oxford college:
All Souls College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-9119-9913
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Journal:
Perspectives on Psychological Science More from this journal
Issue:
18
Article number:
5
Pages:
1160-1177
Publication date:
2023-01-17
Acceptance date:
2022-11-06
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EISSN:
1745-6924
ISSN:
1745-6916
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1300799
Local pid:
pubs:1300799
Deposit date:
2022-11-09

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