Determining principles for successful episode retrieval of repeated events

该项目旨在开发有史以来第一套解释性原则，用于解释人们如何成功地从重复的经历中保留和检索单个情节记忆（例如，一次例行的社交活动或与工作有关的活动）。通过加深我们对记忆如何运作的理解，这一新知识有望为面试指导和正在进行的研究奠定基础，这些研究旨在提高对依赖于对特定事件的详细和准确描述的问题进行调查的能力。这包括工作场所或交通事故调查、传染病接触者追踪以及对屡次性犯罪的起诉。

This project aims to develop the first-ever set of explanatory principles for how people successfully retain and retrieve individual episode memories from repeated experiences (e.g., one occurrence of a routine social encounter or job-related activity). By deepening our understanding of how memory works, this new knowledge is expected to lay the foundation for interview guidance and ongoing research aimed at enhancing the proficiency of investigations into matters that rely on detailed and accurate accounts of specific episodes. This includes workplace or traffic accident investigations, infectious disease contact tracing, as well as prosecution of repeated sexual offences.