Abstract
“Source monitoring” (SM) refers to hypothetical cognitive processes by which information from memory is attributed to particular origins or sources in one’s past experience. Just as each autobiographical episode is uniquely defined by the intersection of numerous dimensions (e.g., time, place, sensory modality, agent, etc.), so too the source of any given autobiographical memory is specified by the intersection of such dimensions. You may, for example, remember a prior encounter with the sentence, “I’ll get you, my pretty--and your little dog, too!” If so, was your prior experience of that sentence a fantasy or did you have a sensory encounter with it? If the latter, did you read the sentence or hear it spoken? If heard, who was the speaker, and when and where did you hear the sentence? Answers to such questions converge to define a particular episode in your personal past (i.e., watching The Wizard of Oz at a particular place and time).
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