Out now in Journal Of Cognitive Psychology: The effects of beliefs on correcting misinformation in memory. #psychscisky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New preprint! Using fNIRS, we found that memory updates involving schema switches show a unique, evolving pattern of prefrontal cortex activity over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper on how neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details, led by @collinsilvy.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/d93Vc #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Online now! rdcu.be/d93Vc

I’m presenting a poster tomorrow at CogSci2024 on osf.io/preprints/ps... (P2-LL-552)

Participants actively constructed narratives with systematically manipulated abstract event features to investigate how such abstract event features contribute to updating situation models (2/2)

New preprint! Ingredients of a narrative: How an abstract feature space and event position contribute to a situation model, led by Rene Terporten, with Roel Willems and Monique Flecken. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2cjru (1/2)

Our paper on how blocked training supports learning of multiple schemas, with Andre Beukers, @collinsilvy.bsky.social, Ross Kempner, Nick Franklin, and @gershbrain.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/dEeaG
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Of these 3 history-dependent codes, only the schema code correlated (within-participants) with subsequent episodic memory; this provides converging neural support for the idea that schemas act to scaffold memory for unique episodic details. (8/8)

Additionally, we discovered that medial occipital regions code for the preceding ritual in a rotated fashion compared to the current ritual, likely to avoid interference.
(7/8)

We discovered a North-South schema code in the thalamus, pallidum, caudate, posterior medial cortex, hippocampus, parahippocampus, fusiform gyrus, inferior and superior temporal regions, temporal pole, superior frontal regions and a sequence (i.e., path) code in postcentral gyrus. (6/8)

A key feature of the design is that it allowed us to separately measure, on a per-wedding basis, neural codes relating to the North/South schema, specific sequences (paths), the preceding ritual, and the current ritual. (5/8)

Participants had to learn through experience that the transition structure of the ritual sequences was determined by whether the couple was from the North or South of an Island. (4/8)

Participants viewed computer-animated videos of weddings, where the weddings were composed of sequences of made-up rituals. Weddings also included unique episodic details that participants were asked to recall later. (3/8)

In this study, our goal was two-fold: [1] test for various types of history-dependent representation during narrative perception, and [2] look at how these different types of history-dependent representation at encoding relate to subsequent memory for episodic details. (2/8)

I’m excited to announce our new preprint -- Neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details! URL: https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.02.13.580092v1 (1/8)