Endel Tulving

New Capabilities

Died September 2023; his 1972 theory is now being challenged

For over fifty years, neuroscientists have treated remembering facts and recalling personal experiences as fundamentally different brain operations. A February 2026 study in Nature Human Behaviour found they were wrong: when researchers scanned 40 people performing carefully matched memory tasks, they found no measurable difference in brain activity between the two types of recall.

Updated Feb 7