How accurate is memory? Although people implicitly assume that their memories faithfully represent past events, the prevailing view in research are error prone and constructive. Yet little known about frequency of errors, particularly for naturalistic experiences. Here, younger older adults underwent complex real-world experiences were nonetheless controlled verifiable, freely recalling these after days to years. As expected, memory quantity richness episodic detail declined with increasing...

Abstract The default mode network (DMN) has been identified reliably during rest, as well the performance of tasks such episodic retrieval and future imagining. It remains unclear why this is engaged across these seemingly distinct conditions, though many hypotheses have proposed to account for effects. Prior generating explaining common DMN involvement, degree commonality in within individuals, must be statistically determined test whether or not truly a unitary network, equally To provide...

Decades of memory research demonstrate the importance temporal organization in recall dynamics, using laboratory stimuli (i.e., word lists) at seconds- to minutes-long delays. Little is known, however, about such richer and more remote real-world experiences, which focus usually on content without reference event order. Here, 119 younger older adults freely recalled extended for encoding sequence was controlled, after 2 days or 1 week. We paired analytical tools from list-learning...

Despite the complexity of memory and its diverse manifestations in our daily lives, certain mnemonic effects appear to hold across a wide range conditions. We identify recency, contiguity, similarity, primacy, repetition as potential laws memory, evaluating their explanatory scope discussing theoretical significance. show that apparent violations these occur when different come into conflict, situation opposing physical forces. see search for law-like phenomena guiding development refinement...

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Abstract Sleep is thought to play a critical role in the retention of episodic memories. Yet it remains unclear whether and how sleep actively transforms memory for specific experiences. More generally, little known about sleep’s effects on multidimensional real-world experiences, both overnight days months that follow. In an exception law forgetting, we showed selectively improves retrieval one-time experience (a controlled but immersive art tour) – specifically boosting order tour items...

Abstract Autobiographical memory entails reconstructing the visual features of past events. Eye movements are associated with vivid autobiographical recollection, but this research has yet to capitalize on high temporal resolution eye-tracking data. We aligned eye movement data participants’ simultaneous free recall a verified real-life event, allowing us assess correspondence saccades production episodic and non-episodic narrative content at millisecond level. reliably predicted subsequent...

We investigated memory encoding and retrieval during a quasinaturalistic spatial-episodic task in which subjects delivered items to landmarks desktop virtual environment later recalled the items. Transition probabilities latencies revealed spatial temporal organization of memory. As gained experience with town, their improved knowledge led more efficient navigation increased recall. Subjects who exhibited stronger weaker organization. Scalp-recorded electroencephalographic signals spectral...

Normal aging is typically associated with reduced ability to reconstruct the spatiotemporal context of past events, a core component episodic memory. However, little known about our remember order events comprising extended real-world experiences and how this changes age. We leveraged richness structure museum exhibit address question. Three months after visiting exhibit, 141 adults aged 18-84 completed test memory old/new recognition using pictures from similar lures, which measures...

Decades of memory research demonstrate the importance temporal organization in recall dynamics, using laboratory stimuli (i.e. word lists) at seconds-to-minutes-long delays. Little is known, however, about such richer and more remote real-world experiences, where focus usually on content without reference to event order. Here, 119 younger older adults freely recalled extended for which encoding sequence was controlled, after two days or one week. We paired analytical tools from list-learning...

The precise role of visual mechanisms in recollection personal past events is unknown. present study addresses this question from the oculomotor perspective. Participants freely recalled episodes while viewing a blank screen under free and fixed conditions. Memory performance was quantified with Autobiographical Interview, which separates internal (episodic) external (non-episodic) details. In Study 1, fixation rate predictive number (but not external) details across both viewing. 2, using...

The Autobiographical Interview (AI) separates internal (episodic) and external (non-episodic) details from transcribed protocols using an exhaustive reliable scoring system. While the comprising composite are centered on elements of episodic memory, more heterogeneous as they meant to capture a variety non-episodic utterances: general semantics, different types personal semantics details, metacognitive statements, repetitions, about off topic events. Elevated consistently observed in aging...

In this chapter, we summarize the literature on role of PFC in memory tasks. For other, more targeted reviews, see Fletcher and Henson (2001), Simons Spiers (2003), Szczepanski Knight (2014), Nyhus Badre (2015). Here, focus our summary work not already covered depth these reviews; also cast a wider net, integrating findings from humanand animal research across frontal subregions experimental paradigms. The task is challenging, given breadth memory-related processes attributed to PFC....

We investigated memory encoding and retrieval during a quasi-naturalistic spatial-episodic task in which subjects delivered items to landmarks desktop virtual environment later recalled the items. Transition probabilities latencies revealed spatial temporal organization of memory. As gained experience with town, their improved knowledge led more efficient navigation increased recall. Subjects who exhibited stronger weaker organization. Scalp-recorded electroencephalographic (EEG) signals...

Autobiographical memory entails reconstructing the visual features of past events. Eye movements are associated with vivid autobiographical recollection, but this research has yet to capitalize on high temporal resolution eye-tracking data. We aligned eye movement data participants’ simultaneous free recall a verified real-life event, allowing us assess correspondence saccades production episodic and non-episodic narrative content at millisecond level. reliably predicted subsequent – not...

To bridge the gap between naturalistic and laboratory assessments of episodic memory, we designed time- content-matched real-world virtualized versions same tour event. In younger older adults, investigated objective subjective aspects recollection for event features using a verbal true/false test common to both conditions. Using data-driven multivariate analysis blind age groups conditions, found that discrimination altered details explained most variance in memory performance. There was an...

How accurate is memory? Although people implicitly assume that their memories faithfully represent past events, the prevailing view in research are error-prone and constructive. Yet little known about frequency of errors, particularly for naturalistic experiences. Here, younger older adults underwent complex real-world experiences were nonetheless controlled verifiable, freely recalling these after days to years. As expected, memory quantity episodic detail richness declined with increasing...