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Endel Tulving was born on 26 May, 1927 in Petseri, Estonia, is a Canadian experimental psychologist (1927–2023). Discover Endel Tulving's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 96 years old?

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Occupation Psychologist
Age 96 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 26 May, 1927
Birthday 26 May
Birthplace Petseri, Estonia
Date of death 11 September, 2023
Died Place Mississauga, Ontairo, Canada
Nationality Estonia

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1927

Endel Tulving (May 26, 1927 – September 11, 2023) was an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist.

In his research on human memory he proposed the distinction between semantic and episodic memory.

Tulving was a professor at the University of Toronto.

Tulving was born in Petseri, Estonia, in 1927.

1944

In 1944, following the Soviet re-occupation of Estonia, Tulving (then 17 years old) and his younger brother Hannes were separated from their family and sent to live in Germany.

In Germany, he finished high school and worked as a teacher and interpreter for the U.S. army.

1949

He briefly studied medicine at Heidelberg University before he immigrated to Canada in 1949.

1950

In 1950, he married Ruth Mikkelsaar, a fellow Estonian from Tartu whom he had met at a refugee camp in Germany.

1953

Tulving completed a bachelor's (1953) and master's degree (1954) from the University of Toronto, and earned a PhD in experimental psychology (1956) from Harvard University under the supervision of Stanley Smith Stevens.

His doctoral dissertation was on the topic of oculomotor adjustments and visual acuity.

1956

In 1956, Tulving accepted a lectureship at the University of Toronto as a lecturer, where he would remain for the rest of his career.

1970

His published works in 1970s were particularly notable because it coincided with the new determination by many cognitive psychologists to confirm their theories in neuroscience using brain-imaging techniques.

During this period, Tulving mapped the areas of the brain, which are considered active during the encoding and retrieval of memory, effectively associating the medial temporal lobe and the hippocampus with episodic memory.

Tulving has published work on a variety of other topics, including the importance of mental organization of information in memory, a model of brain hemisphere specialization for episodic memory, and discovery of the Tulving-Wiseman function.

1972

Tulving first made the distinction between episodic and semantic memory in a 1972 book chapter.

Episodic memory is the ability to consciously recollect previous experiences from memory (e.g., recalling a recent family trip to Disney World), whereas semantic memory is the ability to store more general knowledge in memory (e.g., the fact that Disney World is in Florida).

This distinction was based on theoretical grounds and experimental psychology findings, and subsequently was linked to different neural systems in the brain by studies of brain damage and neuroimaging techniques.

At the time, this type of theorizing represented a major departure from many contemporary theories of human learning and memory, which did not emphasize different kinds of subjective experience or brain systems.

1974

He served as Chair of the Department of Psychology from 1974 to 1980, and became a Professor in 1985.

1983

Tulving's 1983 book Elements of Episodic Memory elaborated on these concepts, and has been cited over 9000 times.

According to Tulving, the ability to travel back and forward in time mentally is unique to humans and this is made possible by the autonoetic consciousness and is the essence of episodic memory.

Tulving's theory of "encoding specificity" emphasizes the importance of retrieval cues in accessing episodic memories.

The theory states that effective retrieval cues must overlap with the to-be-retrieved memory trace.

Because the contents of the memory trace are primarily established during the initial encoding of the experience, retrieval cues will be maximally effective if they are similar to this encoded information.

Tulving has dubbed the process through which a retrieval cue activates a stored memory "synergistic ecphory".

One implication of the encoding specificity principle is that forgetting may be caused by the lack of appropriate retrieval cues, as opposed to decay of a memory trace over time or interference from other memories.

Another implication is that there is more information stored in memory relative to what can be retrieved at any given point (i.e., availability vs. accessibility).

Tulving's research has emphasized the importance of episodic memory for our experience of consciousness and our understanding of time.

For example, he conducted studies with the amnesic patient KC, who had relatively normal semantic memory but severely impaired episodic memory due to brain damage from a motorcycle accident.

Tulving's work with KC highlighted the central importance of episodic memory for the subjective experience of one's self in time, an ability he dubbed "autonoetic consciousness".

KC lacked this ability, failing to remember prior events and also failing to imagine or plan for the future.

Tulving also developed a cognitive task to measure different subjective states in memory, called the "remember"/"know" procedure.

1992

He joined the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences in 1992 as the first Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and remained there until his retirement in 2010.

In 1992, he retired from full-time work at the University of Toronto and began working at the Rotman Research Institute.

2006

In 2006, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC), Canada's highest civilian honour.

2010

Tulving has published at least 200 research articles and chapters, and he is widely cited, with an h-index of 69 (as of April 2010), and in a Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, he ranked as the 36th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

2012

The couple were married until her death in 2012.

They had two daughters: Elo Ann, and Linda.

2019

By 2019, he held the titles of Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and Visiting Professor of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Tulving died from complications of a stroke at a nursing home in Mississauga, Ontario, on September 11, 2023, at the age of 96.