Thanks Hugo.

We specialize in "cool."

This work is often (incorrectly) cited as "Remembrance of things past." So (with apologies to Proust) we found that remembrance is—quite literally—accomplished with gazes passed.

Memory scientists love to cite the Petit Madeline passage from Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu." Although this passage stats with smells and tastes, these are merely tiggers for a rich visual recollection, where the the whole of Combray and its surroundings "sprang into being."

Episodic details were preceded by increased saccades by about 500 ms, followed by a reduction of saccades, reflecting a temporal arc of visual reinstatement in autobiographical recollection.

91 Ss freely recalled a naturalistic, staged event (the Baycrest Tour) one-week after encoding, with EMs tracked looking at a blank screen. Transcripts were segmented into internal (episodic) vs. external (non-episodic) details using the Autobiographical Interview (one of my favourite measures 😉).

While researchers have assessed eye movements in relation to free recall (e.g., x.com/michael_arms...) these have not examined the coupling of eye movements to details at the millisecond level.

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The Data Blitz session wrapped up with Khalil Husein from the Fernandes and Stastna Labs on “Can computational sentiment analysis classify autobiographical memories? Comparing VADER and TextBlob” 🧠 #TAMeG2025

Melisa Gumus from the Mack Lab on “Emergence of attentional templates in concept learning and the underlying neural mechanisms” ⚙️🧠 #TAMeG2025

Veronica Cramm from the J. Anderson Lab on “Distinguishing true effect from the confound of scan quality” #TAMeG2025

Audrey Li-Chay-Chung from the Addis and Rosenbaum Labs on “Using tDCS to investigate cerebellar contributions to autobiographical memory” 🧠 #TAMeG2025

Samantha Corion from the Sokolowski Lab on “Neural correlates of mental arithmetic strategies: An fMRI meta-analysis” 🔢🧠 #TAMeG2025

Samantha Gauvreau from the Szpunar Lab on “The impact of repeated cumulative testing on the organization of recall” 📝🧠 #TAMeG2025