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episodic memory
nounMedical Definition of episodic memory
: long-term memory of a specific event that was personally experienced at a particular time or place in the past
Episodic memory concerns events in your personal life history that you can consciously recall and replay in your mind. — New Scientist, 17 May 2003
— compare semantic memory
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