Episodic memory

Memory for a particular event and its context, including relations among what happened, where and when. A computational account must explain binding and context-sensitive retrieval, rather than only classification or familiarity.

Linking the content, context and temporal position belonging to a particular event. A binding representation distinguishes encountering an object in one context from encountering the same object in another context, even when all component features are familiar.

Consider two equally weighted sets of event triples: $\{(A,L,1),(B,R,2)\}$ and $\{(A,R,1),(B,L,2)\}$. Their separate distributions of item, place and time are identical, but $P(L\mid A)$ is respectively $1$ and $0$. Thus identical marginal knowledge does not determine the joint event representation. A behavioral test that can be solved from separate feature lists does not by itself establish episodic binding.