Does autonoetic consciousness in episodic memory rely on recall from a first-person perspective?
Journal of Cognitive Psychology May 11, 2021 Andreea Zaman, C. Russell
Autonoetic consciousness, the sense of self that allows mentally traveling back in time to re-experience personal memories, may be linked to visual perspective. This review examines whether recalling an event from a first-person perspective enhances the subjective feeling of reliving it. It covers current measures of autonoetic consciousness, work on visual imagery and memory, and evidence relating visual perspective to autonoetic consciousness. Neural evidence points to the parietal cortex, especially the angular gyrus, as playing a role in these processes, as shown by experimental manipulations of perspective in episodic memory.