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autonoetic consciousness  

Definition

  • "Autonoetic (self-knowing) consciousness is the name given to the kind of consciousness that mediates an individual's awareness of his or her existence and identity in subjective time extending from the personal past through the present to the personal future." (Tulving, 1985, p. 1).

Synonym(s)

  • autonoesis
  • autonoetic awareness

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Dafni-Merom, A., & Arzy, S. (2020). The radiation of autonoetic consciousness in cognitive neuroscience: A functional neuroanatomy perspective. Neuropsychologia, 143, 107477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107477

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • De Brigard, F. (2024). Episodic memory without autonoetic consciousness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1913), 20230410. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0410

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Sant’Anna, A., Michaelian, K., & Andonovski, N. (2024). Autonoesis and episodicity: Perspectives from philosophy of memory. WIREs Cognitive Science, 15(1), e1665. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1665

    • Document type: conceptual analysis

    • Access: open

  • • Tulving, E. (1985). Memory and consciousness. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 26(1), 1‑12. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0080017

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Wheeler, M. A., Stuss, D. T., & Tulving, E. (1997). Toward a theory of episodic memory: the frontal lobes and autonoetic consciousness. Psychological Bulletin, 121(3), 331–354. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.121.3.331

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Zaman, A., & Russell, C. (2022). Does autonoetic consciousness in episodic memory rely on recall from a first-person perspective? Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 34(1), 9-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2021.1922419

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Zaman, A., Setton, R., Catmur, C., & Russell, C. (2024). What is autonoetic consciousness? Examining what underlies subjective experience in memory and future thinking. Cognition, 253, 105934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105934

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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