Endel Tulving: Pioneering Psychologist Unraveling the Mysteries of Memory
Endel Tulving, a renowned cognitive psychologist known for his groundbreaking work on human memory, has passed away at the age of 96. Tulving revolutionized the field by proposing the existence of two distinct forms of memory: semantic and episodic. He demonstrated that the brain stores and retrieves information on separate tracks, challenging the notion of memory as a single entity. Tulving's ideas were initially controversial but were later supported by studies using PET scans and interviews with amnesic patients. His contributions have had a lasting impact on psychology and neuroscience, earning him recognition as one of the most important cognitive scientists of the 20th century.