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Canadian Scientist Endel Tulving

Background Information Born on May 26, 1927 in Estonia Currently lives in Toronto, Ontario Family includes: o Father and Mother: Juhan and Linda o Married to Ruth Mikkelsaar o Has 2 daughters Elo Ann and Linda Admires any music by Sibelius Has a creative, impatient, positive and optimistic personality Likes taking walks, playing tennis and chess Was interested in the history of science Honours & Awards BA (Honours Psychology), University of Toronto, 1953 MA (Psychology), University of Toronto, 1954 PhD (Experimental Psychology), Harvard University, 1957 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, Canada Council 1976; Howard Crosby Warren Medal, Society of Figure 1 - Endel Tulving Experimental Psychologists, 1982 Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, American Psychology Association 1983 Foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1987 Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1988 William James Fellow, American Psychological Society, 1990 Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1991 Fellow, Royal Society of London, 1992 Killam Prize, Canada Council, 1994 Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Achievement, American Psychological Foundation, 1994 Foreign Member, Academia Europaea, 1996 McGovern Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996 Foreign Member, Estonian Academy of Sciences, 2002 Gairdner International Award, 2005 Officer of the Order of Canada, 2006

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Current Research Research on human memory has influenced generations of psychological scientists, neuroscientists, and clinicians episodic vs. semantic memory (past event memory vs. fact/knowledge memory) implications and ramifications of the idea that memory takes the form of different systems all of which have some properties in common and differ from others in fundamental ways features that distinguishes episodic from other forms of memory is autonoetic (self knowing) consciousness and "chronesthesia" (subjective sense of the past, present, and future time) o when you remember a past happening you have a familiar kind of mental experience that you recognize as remembering o it is different from the kinds of mental experiences (recalling facts or imagining what people, objects or scenes look like o autoneotic kind of conscious awareness does not support the use of any other kind of memory-based skill o autonoetic is a feature of only episodic memory o chronesthesia is being investigated by using the techniques of functional neuroimaging episodic memory is only within humans no mammal including mice, squirrels, dogs, elephants, and chimpanzees have episodic memory, hence it suggests that episodic memory is a result of evolutionary change

CONTACT INFO The Rotman Research Institute Baycrest 3560 Bathurst Street, 932 Toronto, Ontario Canada M6A 2E1 Phone: 416-785-2500 x3510 Email: etulvingrotman-baycrest.on.ca Fax: 416-785-2862