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May 18, 2026Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsOpen Access

Remembering what you did: episodic memory for self-actions

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MMMatan MazorSSSilvia SeghezziSMSanjay Manohar

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Overview

This synthesis examines self-action memory's roles in cognitive function and its effects in conditions like OCD.

Key Points

  • The study aims to understand how memories of self-actions are stored and retrieved, and their significance in cognitive processes.
  • Synthesis of evidence from behavioral studies and psychopathology
  • Analysis of memory frameworks
  • Exploration of mechanisms in conditions like amnesia and OCD
  • Memory for self-actions helps scaffold memories for environmental events and learning from feedback.
  • Habitual actions are particularly susceptible to distortions, seen in confabulations in amnesic patients.
  • An accurate self-model may help compensate for hippocampal memory loss in Alzheimer's disease.

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Mazor et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0aac6d5ba8ef6d83b6fcebhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106725
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