Cognitive psychologists have often discussed the idea that when Proust used in his books the concept of involuntary memories, which could be retrieved by an odor or a taste, he was in fact predating the notion of modern episodic memory. Since the publication of his famous "In Search of Lost Time", considerable progress has been made on our understanding of various types of memory and of the mechanisms involved in different brain circuits and synapses responsible for their long-term storage. This review will focus on the role of hippocampus in episodic memory, including its role in encoding time and various elements of episodes, in particular olfactory information. Our conclusion is that Proust did indeed predict the existence of episodic memory, although he did not realize that, in addition to remembering things past, memory is also used to predict the future.

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Proust会预测情节记忆的存在吗？

认知心理学家经常讨论这样一种观念，即当普鲁斯特在他的书中使用非自愿性记忆的概念时，他可以先闻现代情节性记忆，而这种非自愿性记忆可以通过气味或味道恢复。自从他着名的《寻找失落的时间》出版以来，在我们对各种类型的记忆以及与负责长期储存的不同脑回路和突触所涉及的机制的理解上，已经取得了长足的进步。这项审查将侧重于海马在情节性记忆中的作用，包括其在编码时间和发作的各种要素中的作用，尤其是嗅觉信息。我们的结论是，普鲁斯特确实预测了情景记忆的存在，尽管他没有意识到，除了记住过去的事情，