NeuropsychologiaJuly 23, 2026Andreea Zaman, Ruby Morton, Paige Seath et al.
Remembering personal events typically involves reconstructing our original first-person perspective, often accompanied by a vivid sense of re-experiencing the past. The Angular Gyrus (AnG) has been implicated in both perspective reconstruction and subjective memory experience, yet its specific contribution remains unclear. We investigated the role of the AnG across three studies using a...
CognitionDecember 2024Andreea Zaman, Roni Setton, Caroline Catmur et al.
Autonoetic consciousness is the awareness that an event we remember is one that we ourselves experienced. It is a defining feature of our subjective experience of remembering and imagining future events. Given its subjective nature, there is ongoing debate about how to measure it. Our goal was to develop a framework to identify cognitive markers of autonoetic consciousness. Across two studies...
ABSTRACT Here, we review the literature on autonoetic consciousness in episodic memory, our memory for personally experienced events, in order to understand its relationship to visual perspective. Autonoetic consciousness is the sense of self we experience when recalling a memory from our life (Tulving (1985). Memory and consciousness. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 26(1), 1–12)....