episodicity
Episodicity is the property of being organized as discrete episodes—distinct blocks of time or events with clear boundaries, settings, and agents. It contrasts with a continuous or unsegmented experience, in which components blend into a seamless flow. The concept is used across disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, and literary theory to describe how events and experiences are structured and recalled.
In cognitive psychology and neuroscience, episodicity is central to the study of episodic memory, a memory
In narrative and discourse analysis, episodicity refers to how stories are segmented into episodes consisting of
In philosophy of time and phenomenology, episodicity raises questions about how consciousness experiences time. Some theories
Applications and related topics include the study of memory disorders in which episodic memory is impaired,