Endel Tulving's proposal that episodic memory is distinct from other memory systems like semantic memory remains an extremely influential idea in cognitive neuroscience research. As originally suggested by Tulving, episodic memory involves three key components that differentiate it from all other memory systems: spatiotemporal binding, mental time travel, and autonoetic consciousness. Here, we focus on the idea of spatiotemporal binding in episodic memory and, in particular, how consideration of the precision of spatiotemporal context helps expand our understanding of episodic memory. Precision also helps shed light on another key issue in cognitive neuroscience, the role of the hippocampus outside of episodic memory in perception, attention, and working memory. By considering precision alongside item-context bindings, we attempt to shed new light on both the nature of how we represent context and what roles the hippocampus plays in episodic memory and beyond.

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精度、结合力和海马体：我们到底在说什么？

Endel Tulving 提出的情景记忆不同于语义记忆等其他记忆系统的提议仍然是认知神经科学研究中极具影响力的观点。正如 Tulving 最初提出的那样，情景记忆涉及将其与所有其他记忆系统区分开来的三个关键组成部分：时空结合、心理时间旅行和自主意识。在这里，我们专注于情景记忆中时空结合的概念，特别是考虑时空上下文的精确性如何有助于扩大我们对情景记忆的理解。精确度还有助于阐明认知神经科学中的另一个关键问题，即情景记忆之外的海马体在感知、注意力和工作记忆中的作用。通过在项目上下文绑定旁边考虑精度，