# Autobiographical Memory **Domain:** Cognitive Neuroscience / Identity **Doc Type:** Scientific Concept Node **Maturity:** Established Field **Related:** [[Memory Architecture]], [[Personal Continuity Ontology]], [[Episode Graph]], [[Re-entry Pathways]] --- ## Definition **Autobiographical memory** is memory organized around personally experienced events and the self across time. It joins episodic detail with semantic self-knowledge and is reconstructive rather than a literal playback of a stored recording. ## Continuity relevance Continuity systems must preserve relations among event, place, time, embodiment, affect, action, social context, and self-interpretation. A decontextualized fact may survive while its autobiographical role is lost.