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From: arti@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Arti Nigam)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Concepts and Semantics
Message-ID: <909@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 88 22:26:21 GMT
Reply-To: arti@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Arti Nigam)
Organization: University of Delaware
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Summary: memory, repisodic recall

In article <367@thirdi.UUCP> sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes:
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>A confusing aspect of memory, not resolved in my mind, is whether, in viewing
>mental images of past events, one is actually viewing the past per se or
>whether one is only viewing mental representations of it.  The ontological
>status of the past is unclear.  Perhaps you or others have some ideas on this
>point.
>

For now I will accept your phrase 'viewing mental images of past events.'
While 'viewing such mental images,' you may be viewing a reconstructed past
that never actually existed (repisodic memory); your 'recall', if you will,
may be based on a schema for events of a certain type, rather than recall for
the actual event.  Also, what you recall may likely be influenced by a
conglomerate of later and earlier events.