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View article: What makes memories vivid?
What makes memories vivid? Open
Some memories are vivid and detailed, while others are vague and indistinct. Although a common experience, the cognitive mechanisms underlying these differences remain poorly understood. A prevailing explanation for what makes mental repre…
View article: Unraveling Memory Representations: Perceptual and Conceptual Representations Interactively Support Memory Judgments
Unraveling Memory Representations: Perceptual and Conceptual Representations Interactively Support Memory Judgments Open
Memory representations are comprised of a tableau of features, includingperceptual and conceptual properties of encoded stimuli. While prior research hasshown that both feature types are independently represented in memory, recognitionaccu…
View article: Mapping concept and relational semantic representation in the brain using large language models
Mapping concept and relational semantic representation in the brain using large language models Open
How the brain organizes semantic information is one of the most challenging and expansive questions in cognitive neuroscience. To shed light on this issue, prior studies have attempted to decode how the brain represents concepts. We instea…
View article: Training Autobiographical Memory in Older Adults Using Photos From Wearable Cameras
Training Autobiographical Memory in Older Adults Using Photos From Wearable Cameras Open
Objectives Older adults are substantially impaired in memory for specific past events, particularly for memory of contextual information, such as when an event happened (temporal-order memory). In the current study, we investigated a novel…
View article: What Makes Memories Vivid?
What Makes Memories Vivid? Open
Some memories are vivid and detailed, while others are vague and indistinct. Although a common experience, the cognitive mechanisms underlying these differences remain poorly understood. A common explanation for what makes mental represent…
View article: Unraveling Memory Representations: Perceptual and Conceptual Representations Interactively Support Memory Judgments
Unraveling Memory Representations: Perceptual and Conceptual Representations Interactively Support Memory Judgments Open
Memory representations are comprised of a tableau of features, includingperceptual and conceptual properties of encoded stimuli. While prior research hasshown that both feature types are independently represented in memory, recognitionaccu…
View article: Rethinking Vividness: Semantic moreso than perceptual features drive the recall vividness of complex pictures
Rethinking Vividness: Semantic moreso than perceptual features drive the recall vividness of complex pictures Open
While some memories are vivid and detailed, others are vague and indistinct. Although this is a ubiquitous experience, the cognitive mechanisms underlying these differences are not well understood. To investigate this issue, in Experiment …
View article: Unraveling Memory Representations: Interactive Effects of Visual and Conceptual Feature Representations on Memory Decisions
Unraveling Memory Representations: Interactive Effects of Visual and Conceptual Feature Representations on Memory Decisions Open
In daily life, we rely on memory to make accurate decisions, such as distinguishing the correct highway exit from similar-looking alternatives. While memories store enough features for such discriminations, how these features influence mem…
View article: Trial-level Representational Similarity Analysis
Trial-level Representational Similarity Analysis Open
Neural representation refers to the brain activity that stands in for one’s cognitive experience, and in cognitive neuroscience, the principal method to studying neural representations is representational similarity analysis (RSA). The cla…
View article: Spontaneous fluctuations in global connectivity reflect transitions between states of high and low prediction error
Spontaneous fluctuations in global connectivity reflect transitions between states of high and low prediction error Open
While numerous researchers claim that the minimization of prediction error (PE) is a general force underlying most brain functions, others argue instead that PE minimization drives low-level, sensory-related neuronal computations but not h…
View article: Local and distributed information coding in the ventral stream
Local and distributed information coding in the ventral stream Open
Neuroscience is replete with evidence that cognitive representations are distributed across many cortical regions. Yet, the scale and content of such distributed processing is unclear. Do findings of widespread information coding suggest a…
View article: The neural basis of the insight memory advantage
The neural basis of the insight memory advantage Open
Creative problem solving and memory are inherently intertwined: memory accesses existing knowledge while creativity enhances it. Recent studies show that insights often accompanying creative solutions enhance long-term memory. This insight…
View article: Semantic Dimensions Support the Cortical Representation of Object Memorability
Semantic Dimensions Support the Cortical Representation of Object Memorability Open
Recent work in vision sciences contends that objects carry an intrinsic property called memorability that describes the likelihood that an object can be successfully encoded and later retrieved from memory. It has been shown that object me…
View article: Understanding the mechanisms of lateral parietal memory modulation in Alzheimer's Disease
Understanding the mechanisms of lateral parietal memory modulation in Alzheimer's Disease Open
Background Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is characterized by progressive impairment of cognition and memory, including the loss of episodic memory. The use of non‐invasive brain stimulation therapies to modulate memory encoding processes is a p…
View article: Understanding the mechanisms of lateral parietal memory modulation in Alzheimer's Disease
Understanding the mechanisms of lateral parietal memory modulation in Alzheimer's Disease Open
Background Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is characterized by progressive impairment of cognition and memory, including the loss of episodic memory. The use of non‐invasive brain stimulation therapies to modulate memory encoding processes is a p…
View article: Rethinking Vividness: Semantic moreso than perceptual features drive the recall vividness of complex pictures
Rethinking Vividness: Semantic moreso than perceptual features drive the recall vividness of complex pictures Open
While some memories are vivid and detailed, others are vague and indistinct. Although this is a ubiquitous experience, the cognitive mechanisms underlying these differences are not well understood. To investigate this issue, in Experiment …
View article: What Makes Memories Vivid?
What Makes Memories Vivid? Open
Some memories are vivid and detailed, while others are vague and indistinct. Although a common experience, the cognitive mechanisms underlying these differences remain poorly understood. A common explanation for what makes mental represent…
View article: Cortico-hippocampal interactions underlie schema-supported memory encoding in older adults
Cortico-hippocampal interactions underlie schema-supported memory encoding in older adults Open
Although episodic memory is typically impaired in older adults (OAs) compared to young adults (YAs), this deficit is attenuated when OAs can leverage their rich semantic knowledge, such as their knowledge of schemas. Memory is better for i…
View article: Surprise!—Clarifying the link between insight and prediction error
Surprise!—Clarifying the link between insight and prediction error Open
The AHA experience, a moment of deep understanding during insightful problem-solving involving feelings of certainty, pleasure, and surprise, has captivated psychologists for more than a century. Recently, a new theoretical framework has p…
View article: Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI
Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI Open
Functional connectivity is conventionally defined by measuring the similarity between brain signals from two regions. The technique has become widely adopted in the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, where it ha…
View article: Visual Recognition Memory of Scenes Is Driven by Categorical, Not Sensory, Visual Representations
Visual Recognition Memory of Scenes Is Driven by Categorical, Not Sensory, Visual Representations Open
When we perceive a scene, our brain processes various types of visual information simultaneously, ranging from sensory features, such as line orientations and colors, to categorical features, such as objects and their arrangements. Whereas…
View article: The neural basis of the insight memory advantage.
The neural basis of the insight memory advantage. Open
Creative problem solving and memory are inherently intertwined; memory accesses existing knowledge while creativity enhances it. Recent studies show that insights often accompanying creative solutions enhance long-term memory. This Insight…
View article: Differential Mnemonic Contributions of Cortical Representations during Encoding and Retrieval
Differential Mnemonic Contributions of Cortical Representations during Encoding and Retrieval Open
Several recent fMRI studies of episodic and working memory representations converge on the finding that visual information is most strongly represented in occipito-temporal cortex during the encoding phase but in parietal regions during th…
View article: Hippocampal Functions Modulate Transfer-Appropriate Cortical Representations Supporting Subsequent Memory
Hippocampal Functions Modulate Transfer-Appropriate Cortical Representations Supporting Subsequent Memory Open
The hippocampus plays a central role as a coordinate system or index of information stored in neocortical loci. Nonetheless, it remains unclear how hippocampal processes integrate with cortical information to facilitate successful memory e…
View article: Effects of Aging on Successful Object Encoding: Enhanced Semantic Representations Compensate for Impaired Visual Representations
Effects of Aging on Successful Object Encoding: Enhanced Semantic Representations Compensate for Impaired Visual Representations Open
Although episodic memory and visual processing decline substantially with healthy aging, semantic knowledge is generally spared. There is evidence that older adults' spared semantic knowledge can support episodic memory. Here, we used func…
View article: Surprise! – Clarifying the link between insight and prediction error
Surprise! – Clarifying the link between insight and prediction error Open
The AHA experience, a moment of deep understanding during insightful problem solving involving feelings of certainty, pleasure and surprise, has captivated psychologists for over a century. Recently, a new theoretical framework has propose…
View article: Neural Mechanisms of Creative Problem Solving - From Representational Change to Memory Formation
Neural Mechanisms of Creative Problem Solving - From Representational Change to Memory Formation Open
Despite the need for innovative solutions to contemporary challenges, the neural mechanisms driving creative problem-solving, including representational change and its relation to memory, still remain largely unknown. We focused on the pow…