Determining principles for successful episode retrieval of repeated events

该项目旨在开发第一套解释人们如何成功地从重复的经历（例如，一次常规的社交活动或与工作相关的活动）中保留和检索个人情节记忆的解释原则。通过加深我们对记忆如何工作的理解，这一新知识有望为访谈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具体事件的详细和准确描述的事件的调查熟练程度。这包括工作场所或交通事故调查、追踪传染病接触者以及起诉屡次性犯罪。

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.