Memory Processes and Influences

Shared long-term and short-term memory representational formats in occipital and parietal cortex

This study compares the neural representations of working memory and long-term memory in occipital and parietal cortex using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis, finding shared and distinct coding formats.

Geometric models reveal behavioral and neural signatures of transforming naturalistic experiences into episodic memories

The paper develops a geometric framework to model how naturalistic experiences are transformed into episodic memories by analyzing neural and behavioral data during TV episode viewing.

Effects of age on goal-dependent modulation of episodic memory retrieval

This study investigates age-related differences in retrieval gating during episodic memory tasks, finding that younger adults show attenuated reinstatement of irrelevant scene information compared to older adults.

Bayesian model selection favors parametric over categorical fMRI subsequent memory models in young and older adults

This study uses Bayesian model selection to show parametric models better explain fMRI encoding variance than categorical models in young and older adults.

Memory specificity is linked to repetition effects in event-related potentials across the lifespan

This study examines repetition effects in event-related potentials across age groups and links them to memory specificity and recognition performance.

Retroactive Interference Model of Forgetting

The paper introduces a phenomenological model of forgetting based on retroactive interference, showing that older memories are more stable than newer ones through recognition experiments.

Development of a Semantically Related Emotional and Neutral Stimulus Set

The paper develops a stimulus set of emotional and neutral images that controls for semantic relatedness and other confounding factors to improve memory research.

Recallable but not Recognizable: The Influence of Semantic Priming in Recall Paradigms

The paper investigates recognition failures in cued recall paradigms, showing that recalled words can fail recognition due to implicit processes rather than recollection.

Emotional Metacognition: Stimulus Valence Modulates Cardiac Arousal and Metamemory

This study investigates how stimulus valence and arousal affect memory performance and metamemory, finding that negative valence reduces memory and confidence, and influences cardiac activity during recognition.

Quantifying Aphantasia through drawing: Those without visual imagery show deficits in object but not spatial memory

This study quantifies memory differences between aphantasics and controls by analyzing drawings, finding aphantasics have object memory deficits but intact spatial memory.

Aging and the encoding of changes in events: The role of neural activity pattern reinstatement

This study investigates how neural activity pattern reinstatement in older and young adults relates to detecting and remembering changes in events using functional MRI.

Neural measures of subsequent memory reflect endogenous variability in cognitive function

The paper examines how neural activity during memory encoding relates to endogenous brain states, showing that external factors have minimal impact on EEG correlates of successful memory.

The functional foundations of episodic memory remain stable throughout the lifespan

This study investigates whether the functional foundations of episodic memory encoding remain consistent across the lifespan, finding continuity rather than late-life specificity.

Item recognition and lure discrimination in younger and older adults are supported by alpha/beta desynchronization

This study shows that alpha/beta desynchronization correlates with memory specificity and is reduced in older adults during lure discrimination tasks.

Usefulness of a familiarity signal during recognition depends on test format: Neurocognitive evidence for a core assumption of the CLS framework

The paper shows that familiarity signal strength in recognition memory depends on test format, supporting the CLS framework's assumption that test format affects familiarity's diagnosticity.

Optimal forgetting: Semantic compression of episodic memories

The paper proposes a semantic compression framework to explain memory distortions by modeling memory as lossy compression using generative models, validated across three datasets.

Distinct representational structure and localization for visual encoding and recall during visual imagery

The paper compares neural patterns during visual encoding and recall, finding distinct representational structures and localizations, with recall showing coarser information than encoding.

Recollection is more than retrieving context or source memory: evidence from ERPs of Recognition and Source Memory combinations

The paper investigates a memory condition combining accurate source memory with low-confidence item recognition, using ERPs to show a late negative ERP effect and behavioral patterns distinct from conventional memory processes.

The Effects of Social Stress on Memory: If, How and When

This study investigates the impact of psychosocial stress on memory, finding modest effects and highlighting individual differences in stress responsivity.

Does the heart forget? Modulation of cardiac activity induced by inhibitory control over emotional memories

This study shows that suppressing negative memories affects cardiac responses, with efficient suppression leading to long-term inhibition of cardiac deceleration and ineffective suppression increasing cardiac response.

Visual interference can help and hinder memory: Capturing representational detail using the Validated Circular Shape Space

This study investigates how visual interference affects memory by analyzing representational detail using a validated circular shape space, finding that similar distractors can both help and hinder memory depending on the required level of detail.

Direct brain recordings identify hippocampal and cortical networks that distinguish successful versus failed episodic memory retrieval

Visual and semantic representations predict subsequent memory in perceptual and conceptual memory tests

The paper examines how visual and semantic representations predict memory performance in perceptual and conceptual tests using fMRI and RSA.

Effects of age on pre-stimulus neural activity predictive of successful memory encoding: an fMRI study

This study examines age-related differences in pre-stimulus neural activity predictive of memory encoding using fMRI, finding regionally specific patterns that suggest some cognitive processes are age-invariant.

Neurophysiological Correlates of the Dunning-Kruger Effect

This study investigates the Dunning-Kruger Effect in episodic memory using EEG, finding distinct neural correlates between over- and under-estimators.

Probing the neural dynamics of mnemonic representations after the initial consolidation

This study investigates how retrieval and suppression affect established memories 24 hours after learning using fMRI, finding that retrieval strengthens memories while suppression has a modest negative effect.

Image memorability is predicted by discriminability and similarity in different stages of a convolutional neural network

The paper shows that image memorability is predicted by discriminability and similarity at different CNN layers in two behavioral experiments.

Age differences in retrieval-related reinstatement reflect age-related dedifferentiation at encoding

The paper shows that age-related declines in scene reinstatement during memory retrieval are due to reduced neural differentiation during encoding.

Characterising strategy use during the performance of hippocampal-dependent tasks

The paper examines the strategies used by participants to perform hippocampal-dependent tasks and finds that scene visual imagery is a dominant strategy across multiple cognitive tasks.

Recollection-related hippocampal fMRI effects predict longitudinal memory change in healthy older adults

This study shows that hippocampal fMRI effects during recollection predict future memory changes in healthy older adults.