Memory Processes and Influences

Investigating the Influence of the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Single Nucleotide Polymorphism on Familiarity and Recollection Event-Related Potentials

This study investigates how the Val66Met SNP affects familiarity and recollection in memory tasks using ERPs, finding Val/Val individuals perform better on item recognition but not source recognition.

Decision confidence: EEG correlates of confidence in different phases of a decision task

This study identifies EEG correlates of decision confidence across different phases of a recognition memory task, showing confidence is most reflected during feedback processing.

Predictability changes what we remember in familiar temporal contexts

The paper shows that predictable contexts reduce pruning of existing memories and encoding of new memories, while unpredictable contexts lead to pruning.

Rapid memory reactivation at movie event boundaries promotes episodic encoding

The paper investigates how event boundaries in a movie trigger memory reinstatement and identifies an N400-like ERP component associated with context shifts.

Dynamic arousal signals construct memories of time and events

The paper shows that sudden context changes trigger arousal signals linked to memory segmentation and episodic memory formation.

Prestimulus Activity in the Cingulo-Opercular Network Predicts Memory for Naturalistic Episodic Experience

The paper shows that prestimulus activity in the cingulo-opercular network predicts memory for naturalistic episodic experiences by modulating encoding and retrieval processes.

Investigating Confidence Judgments using Reviews in Human and Monkeys

This study compares confidence judgments in humans and macaque monkeys, finding that humans use review strategies more effectively than monkeys, with no performance improvement from reviewing.

Reward prediction errors create event boundaries in memory

This paper shows that high reward prediction errors (RPEs) enhance memory encoding and create event boundaries that disrupt sequential memory integration.

Neural pattern similarity differentially affects memory performance of younger and older adults

This study examines how neural pattern similarity affects memory performance in younger and older adults, finding age-related differences in how similarity influences memory retention.

Unitization modulates recognition of within-domain and cross-domain associations: Evidence from event related potentials

The paper investigates how unitization affects associative memory using ERP data, finding that familiarity processes support compound word recognition regardless of encoding modality.

Neural evidence for age-related differences in representational quality and strategic retrieval processes

The paper investigates age-related changes in representational quality and retrieval processes using neural differentiation and BOLD activity analysis during memory tasks.

Emergence of hierarchical organization in memory for random material

The paper shows that participants spontaneously create hierarchical structures when recalling random word lists, improving memory performance and resembling real-life narrative structures.

Theta oscillations show impaired interference detection in the elderly during selective memory retrieval

The paper investigates age-related differences in interference detection during memory retrieval, finding that older adults show reduced theta power indicative of impaired interference detection and inability to suppress competitors.

Differences in strategic abilities but not associative processes explain memory development

The paper investigates how strategic and associative memory components develop across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood using fMRI, finding that strategic abilities, not associative processes, explain memory differences.

Testing the fast consolidation hypothesis of retrieval-mediated learning

This study investigates the neurocognitive mechanisms of retrieval-mediated learning using fMRI, finding that retrieval increases prefrontal cortex activity and decreases hippocampal activity, supporting a fast consolidation hypothesis.

Individual susceptibility to TMS affirms the precuneual role in meta-memory upon recollection

This study shows that TMS on the precuneus reduces meta-memory ability during memory retrieval and affects BOLD signal correlation with meta-memory efficiency.

Dissociating refreshing and elaboration and their impacts on memory

This fMRI study shows that refreshing and elaboration are distinct neural processes with different impacts on working memory and long-term memory.

Reactivation of neural patterns during memory reinstatement supports encoding specificity

The paper investigates how memory performance is influenced by the match or mismatch between encoding and retrieval modalities using MEG and a computational model.

The association between reserve, cognitive ability and performance-related brain activity during episodic encoding and retrieval across the adult lifespan

This study examines how reserve and age affect brain activity during episodic memory tasks using fMRI and B-PLS analysis in a large adult sample.

Positive reward prediction errors strengthen incidental memory encoding

This study shows that reward prediction errors enhance incidental memory encoding, specifically during memoranda presentation, and this effect is not consolidation-dependent.

Retrieval Practice Facilitates Judgments of Learning Through Multiple Mechanisms

This study shows that retrieval practice improves judgments of learning by using multiple factors, including confidence and retrieval speed.

Beta-band activity in medial prefrontal cortex predicts source memory encoding and retrieval accuracy

This study shows that beta-band activity in the medial prefrontal cortex during encoding and retrieval of self-generated information correlates with memory accuracy.

The Perceptual Neural Trace of Memorable Unseen Scenes

The paper identifies an early and prolonged neural signal of memorability during visual processing using MEG, detected outside subjective awareness.

A retrieved context model of the emotional modulation of memory

The paper extends the Context Maintenance and Retrieval Model to explain emotional modulation of memory by showing how emotional memories are better retained due to context binding during encoding and retrieval.

The Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Genotype Does Not Influence the Grey or White Matter Structures Underlying Recognition Memory

This study investigates the effect of the Val66Met BDNF SNP on recognition memory subprocesses and brain structure, finding no structural differences but behavioral group differences in familiarity.

Memory for non-painful auditory items is influenced by whether they are experienced in a context involving painful electrical stimulation

This study shows that non-painful auditory items presented in a context with painful electrical stimulation are less well remembered than those in a pain-free context.

Early Reactivation of Emotion in ERPs to Neutral Retrieval Cues

The paper examines how emotion affects memory reactivation during retrieval, finding an early ERP effect linked to emotional context.

Multimodal integration and vividness in the angular gyrus during episodic encoding and retrieval

This study investigates the role of the angular gyrus in episodic memory by examining vividness and cross-modal integration during encoding and retrieval using fMRI.

More is less: increased processing of unwanted memories facilitates forgetting

The paper shows that intending to forget increases processing of unwanted memories, leading to more forgetting, especially for moderately activated items.

Identifying the cognitive processes underpinning hippocampal-dependent tasks

The paper investigates the relationship between autobiographical memory, future thinking, and spatial navigation, finding that scene construction, not memory, mediates their interrelation.