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prefrontal cortex
Facts, as in semantic memory, need differ only from the events of episodic memory in that they are removed from a specific moment or place. Once the pink elephant is displaced from the jungle hideaway in which you had a cup of tea with him one night last summer, he becomes reduced to the generic thought that elephants are pink. Damage to the area where facts have been personalized into events by time and space referencing would not actually destroy memory itself but rather would uncouple facts from the contexts in which they occurred. Specific events would be reduced to mere generic facts in that they would have no special or unique features in time and space.
Facts, as in semantic memory, need differ only from the events of episodic memory in that they are removed from a specific moment or place. Once the pink elephant is displaced from the jungle hideaway in which you had a cup of tea with him one night last summer, he becomes reduced to the generic thought that elephants are pink. Damage to the area where facts have been personalized into events by time and space referencing would not actually destroy memory itself but rather would uncouple facts from the contexts in which they occurred. Specific events would be reduced to mere generic facts in that they would have no special or unique features in time and space.
