From Augustine of Hippo’s memory systems to our modern taxonomy in cognitive psychology and neuroscience of memory: A 16-century nap of intuition before light of evidence

Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-41

  Cassel, Jean Christophe ^a   Cassel, Daniel ^a,b   Manning, Lilianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Lycée André Maurois   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive psychology; Declarative memory; Emotions; Episodic memory; Memory; Neuroscience of memory; Philosophy; Psychology; Semantic memory; Taxonomy of memory systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995290385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2076328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/bs3010021     Document Type: Review

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