# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/endel-tulving
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:49:39.605Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/endel-tulving"
name: "Endel Tulving"
slug: "endel-tulving"
description: "Endel Tulving was an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. In his research on human memory he proposed the distinction between semantic and episodic memory. Tulving was a professor at the University of Toronto. He joined the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences in 1992 as the first Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and remained there until his retirement in 2010. In 2006, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC), Canada's highest civilian honour."
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birthDate: "1927-05-26"
deathDate: "2023-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump