Endel Tulving

Cognitive Science Estonia 1927 – 2023 102 quotes

Estonian-Canadian psychologist who distinguished episodic and semantic memory.

Most quoted

"Autonoetic consciousness, the capacity to be aware of one's own existence and to project oneself into the past and future, is a hallmark of episodic memory."

— from Memory and Consciousness, 1985

"Memory is not a unitary faculty of the mind, but rather a collection of interacting systems, each with its own characteristics and functions."

— from Elements of Episodic Memory, 1983

"Without episodic memory, we would be forever stuck in the present, unable to learn from our past or plan for our future."

— from Memory and Consciousness, 1985