Dual representation theory (source code)

= Dual representation theory

The original 1996 account distinguishes verbally accessible <Memory in animals>[memories] from representations accessed automatically through situational cues. It aims to explain differences between deliberate narrative retrieval and sensory reliving. This functional distinction does not by itself prove two anatomically discrete <Memory in animals>[memory] stores.<A dual representation theory of posttraumatic stress disorder by Chris R. Brewin and others>[Psychological Review 103, 670–686; original verbally/situationally accessible memory distinction]{ref}