Memory Processes and Influences

Aging and false memories: Comparing effects of item-relatedness and list position

This study investigates whether semantic and phonological false memories are distinct or shared mechanisms and how they change with age, finding no age-related differences in false memory patterns.

Elucidating directed neural dynamics of scene construction across memory and imagination

This study uses fMRI and DCM to analyze effective connectivity in the vmPFC-hippocampus-precuneus network during memory and imagination tasks, revealing task-specific patterns of neural interaction.

Nested Contextual change and the temporal compression of episodic memory

This study investigates how nested event structures affect memory for temporal and spatial information in a virtual reality setting, finding stronger temporal compression in events with fewer items.

A shared brain state for episodic and semantic retrieval

This study investigates whether the retrieval state, associated with memory recall, is specific to episodic memory or supports both episodic and semantic memory by analyzing EEG data during different judgment tasks.

A neural network model of free recall learns multiple memory strategies

This paper shows neural networks can develop diverse memory strategies for free recall, including an item index code similar to memory palace techniques, which outperforms temporal context models.

Representational magnitude as a geometric signature ofimage and word memorability

The paper shows that representational magnitude predicts memorability across image and word datasets, suggesting it is a general property of distributed representations.

Neural correlates of successful relational memory in younger and older adults: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

This study uses ALE meta-analysis to identify neural correlates of relational memory success in younger and older adults, finding stable hippocampal involvement and age-related differences in prefrontal and retrieval-related regions.

Episodic and semantic memory contributions to imagination and creativity

The paper examines how episodic and semantic memory relate to divergent thinking and episodic simulation, finding semantic memory strongly predicts divergent thinking while both memory types predict episodic simulation.

Remoteness sensitive theta network dynamics during early autobiographical memory access

This study examines neural dynamics during autobiographical memory retrieval, finding that remote memories show increased theta power and more efficient connectivity patterns compared to recent memories.

Cortical reinstatement of causally related events sparks narrative insights by updating neural representation patterns

The paper investigates how neural patterns representing causally related past events are reinstated and updated in the brain during moments of narrative insight.

Competition Between Memory Updating and Differentiation Emerges from Intrinsic Network Dynamics

The paper presents a computational model based on a modified Hopfield network to explain how prediction errors drive competition between memory updating and differentiation in recognition tasks.

Medial Temporal Default Mode Network Selectively Encodes Autobiographical Visual Imagery

The paper uses fMRI and AI models to show that the medial temporal default mode network encodes visual imagery from autobiographical memories.

Subsequent memory effect in the inferior frontal gyrus revealed by fNIRS

This study shows that fNIRS can detect the subsequent memory effect in the inferior frontal gyrus during encoding of remembered versus forgotten events.

Experimentally-induced encoding variability influences mnemonic discrimination: Evidence from human behavioral data and global matching models

The paper manipulates encoding variability in a mnemonic task and shows that increased repetitions of non-target stimuli impair mnemonic discrimination, supported by behavioral data and a global matching model.

Accessing Meaning During Encoding Shapes Subsequent Memory Reactivation in the Brain

This study shows that different levels of semantic access during encoding lead to distinct neural reactivation patterns during memory retrieval.

Binding items to contexts through conjunctive neural representations with the Method of Loci

The paper investigates how the brain forms connections between new information and existing schemas using the Method of Loci, finding that default mode network regions create conjunctive representations that evolve with expertise.

Neural Context Reinstatement of Recurring Events

The paper investigates whether recalling a recurring event reinstates its initial occurrence's neural context, finding stronger temporal context associations with the first occurrence than later repetitions.

Repeated extrinsic rewards following retrieval practice facilitate later memory

This study shows that repeated rewards after retrieval practice improve memory, while low vivid retrieval practice impairs memory.

Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory

The paper investigates how dopaminergic activity predicts time dilation in memory between event boundaries using fMRI and eye-tracking.

Long-Term Effects of Working Memory Retrieval From Prioritized and Deprioritized States

The paper investigates how retrieving information from prioritized or deprioritized working memory states affects long-term memory recall, finding a stronger benefit for deprioritized information.

Episodic memory facilitates flexible decision making via access to detailed events

The paper shows that episodic memory helps people make better decisions when future needs are uncertain by recalling detailed past events.

Seeing more than schemas: the vmPFC represents imagery- rich mental scenarios

The paper investigates the role of the vmPFC in representing imagery-rich mental scenarios using fMRI and MVPA, finding it encodes detailed visual content beyond abstract representations.

Functional Specialization of Angular Gyrus and Precuneus Subregions for Perspective-Guided Autobiographical Memory Retrieval

This study identifies phase- and subregion-specific roles of angular gyrus and precuneus in perspective-guided autobiographical memory retrieval using fMRI.

A unique neural signature of long-term memory encoding from EEG inter-electrode correlation

The paper identifies a unique neural signature of long-term memory encoding using EEG inter-electrode correlation, showing it predicts individual differences in LTM encoding independent of VWM performance.

Hierarchical coding of local and global positions in episodic memory for naturalistic sequences

The paper investigates how the brain encodes hierarchical positions in naturalistic sequence memory, finding separable neural representations for global and local positions with distinct dimensional and temporal characteristics.

The Late Positive Component in Recognition Memory is Linked to Mnemonic Evidence Accumulation

This study links the Late Positive Component (LPC) in EEG to mnemonic evidence accumulation during recognition memory using computational modeling.

Phase similarity between similar objects indicates representational merging across retrieval training but not sleep

This study compares representational merging during retrieval training and sleep, finding increased similarity between similar objects only during retrieval training.

Memory Traces Reflect How They Were Last Retrieved

The paper shows that how semantic knowledge is accessed during memory retrieval affects subsequent neural representations in the brain.

Common and distinct contributions of the dorsomedial prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices to social episodic memory

This study uses tDCS to investigate the causal roles of dmPFC and PPC in self-reference effects during episodic memory and metacognition, finding shared and distinct contributions.

Retrieval-related eye movements are predictive of memory precision

This study shows that eye movements during memory retrieval predict both retrieval success and the precision of the memory content.