Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2022) Evolutionary Mismatch and Anomalies in the Memory System. [Preprint]

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Abstract

In order to understand involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences, we argue that it is important to take an evolutionary medicine perspective. Here, we propose that these memory anomalies can be understood as the outcomes of an inevitable design trade-off between type I and type II errors in memory processing.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Veit, Walter wrwveit@gmail.com 0000-0001-7701-8995 Browning, Heather heather.browning@anu.edu.au 0000-0003-1554-7052
Keywords:	memory, evolution, déjà vu, involuntary autobiographical memories
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Learning and Memory Specific Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	Dr. Walter Veit
Date Deposited:	07 Nov 2022 15:33
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2023 01:03
Item ID:	21368
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Learning and Memory Specific Sciences > Psychology
Date:	2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21368

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