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View article: The Neural Underpinnings of Aphantasia: A Case Study of Identical Twins
The Neural Underpinnings of Aphantasia: A Case Study of Identical Twins Open
Summary Aphantasia is a condition characterized by reduced voluntary mental imagery. As this lack of mental imagery disrupts visual memory, understanding the nature of this condition can provide important insight into memory, perception, a…
View article: Drawings reveal changes in object memory, but not spatial memory, across time
Drawings reveal changes in object memory, but not spatial memory, across time Open
Time has an immense influence on our memory. Truncated encoding leads to memory for only the ‘gist’ of an image, and long delays before recall result in generalized memories with few details. Here, we used crowdsourced scoring of hundreds …
View article: Remembering where, but not what: how spatial and object visual memory change across delays in recall
Remembering where, but not what: how spatial and object visual memory change across delays in recall Open
Although it has been established that memory worsens the further we get from the original event (Ebbinghaus, 1885), it is largely unknown what memory components degrade over this passage of time (e.g., object or spatial memory). Previous r…
View article: Imagery in a pair of aphantasic and non-aphantasic identical twins: Neural similarities and differences
Imagery in a pair of aphantasic and non-aphantasic identical twins: Neural similarities and differences Open
Aphantasia is defined as a lack of voluntary visual imagery, with otherwise normal perception and visual recognition (Zeman et al., 2015). Aphantasics will often describe semantic but not perceptual detail when recalling visual stimuli (Ba…
View article: Interaction of Perception and Memory
Interaction of Perception and Memory Open
Whereas visual perception is the interpretation of the light that enters the retina of the eye, long-term memory is the encoding, storage, and retrieval of perceptual experiences and learned information. Although these are separable proces…
View article: Dissociation between object detail and spatial memory across exposure time using drawing
Dissociation between object detail and spatial memory across exposure time using drawing Open
The longer we view an image, the better we subsequently remember it. However, most previous studies looking at this effect have been limited to recognition – in which an image is presented and tested as a whole – making it difficult to par…
View article: Tracking induced forgetting across both strong and weak memory representations to test competing theories of forgetting
Tracking induced forgetting across both strong and weak memory representations to test competing theories of forgetting Open
Here we employ a novel analysis to address the question: what causes induced forgetting of pictures? We use baseline memorability as a measure of initial memory strength to ask whether induced forgetting is due to (1) recognition practice …
View article: Induced forgetting is the result of true forgetting, not shifts in decision-making thresholds
Induced forgetting is the result of true forgetting, not shifts in decision-making thresholds Open
Induced forgetting occurs when accessing an item in memory appears to harm memory representations of categorically related items. However, it is possible that the actual memory representations are unharmed. Instead, people may just change …
View article: Unintentional forgetting is beyond cognitive control
Unintentional forgetting is beyond cognitive control Open
Intentional forgetting refers to the attempt to marshal top-down control to purposefully forget, and has been demonstrated in the laboratory using directed forgetting paradigms. Here we asked whether the mechanisms of top-down control can …
View article: Unintentional forgetting is beyond cognitive control
Unintentional forgetting is beyond cognitive control Open
Intentional forgetting refers to the attempt to marshal top-down control to purposefully forget, and has been demonstrated in the laboratory using directed forgetting paradigms. Here, we asked whether the mechanisms of top-down control can…