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Brain, Vol. 126, No. 7, 1509-1510, July 2003
© 2003 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awg212

Editorial

In search of one’s own past: the neural bases of autobiographical memories

Gereon R. Fink1

1 Institute of Medicine, Research Centre Jülich and Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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It is more than a century ago that Francis Galton (1879Go) introduced in this very journal what is now often considered to be the first empirical study of autobiographical memory: ‘I propose in this memoir to give a new instance of psychometry, and a few of its results. ... I trust ... the readers ... will be prepared to agree with the view, that until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have been subjected to measurement and number, it cannot assume the status and dignity of a science.’

Early efforts to understand where memories are stored in the brain were relatively unsuccessful until Penfield and Perot (1963Go), using . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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