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memory, cognition, terminology, ontology, taxonomy Thesaurus of human memory: https://loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/ Blog: https://blogdememovocab.fr For information in French: @memovocabfr.bsky.social

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · May 12

My paper "CogMemo: a standardized, structured and formalized terminological repository on human memory" describing the Thesaurus of Human memory [ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/ ] is out in Lexis: A journal of English Lexicology. Open access. journals.openedition.org/lexis/8907

CogMemo: a standardized, structured and formalized terminological r...

1. Introduction According to the philosopher of science Carl Hempel [1966: 85], “[s]cientific statements are typically formulated in special terms [...]. If those terms are to serve their purpose, ...

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 2d

On the way to Cabourg to attend the third interdisciplinary conference of the GDR Mémoire!

memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 7d

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[Replication] The misinformation effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ]: Why your memories can be hacked.

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 9d

[Review] Statistical learning: "lack of robust phenomena, issues with construct validity, and issues with establishing causality." Open access.

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Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research - npj Science of Learning

npj Science of Learning - Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 14d

[Review] The role of mnemonic silence (memories unsaid) in collective forgetting.

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Collective forgetting? Mnemonic silence and its nuanced role in shaping collective remembering

Collective memories are the result of a nuanced interplay between what is collectively remembered and forgotten. Indeed, much like individual memory, …

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 16d

[Taxonomy] Three forms of aphantasia [❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/...: Neurological, psychogenic, and congenital. Open access.

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Mapping the Imageless Mind: Towards a Taxonomy of Aphantasia

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 20d

[History of memory] Vladimir M. Bekhterev described a case of amnesia due to bilateral hippocampal lesions in 1899, five decades before the patient HM. Open access.

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BEKHTEREV’S CASE: AMNESIA DUE TO BI-HIPPOCAMPAL DAMAGE 50 YEARS BEFORE HM

The association between the hippocampus and memory has been largely shaped by the landmark case of patient HM in the mid-20th century. However, this m…

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 21d

[Empirical study] Attention, pupillometry, and the production effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] in memory. Open access.

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The pupillometric production effect: Evidence for enhanced processing preceding, during, and following production

The production effect refers to superior memory performance for words read aloud than for those read silently. This finding has usually been attribute…

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 21d

Interesting use of the DRM paradigm to test Lakoff & Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory.

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Something false about conceptual metaphors

Although Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory has been influential across many disciplines, little research has tested the psychological reality of conceptual metaphors (CMs) using estab...

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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 22d

Very excited to announce my student Andreas Arslan's first paper, "Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events" in Cognition!

Out now open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Andreas isn't on bsky, but he very kindly wrote a summary thread for me to share.

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Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events

“Episodes” in memory are formed by the experience of dynamic events that unfold over time. However, just because a series of events unfold sequentiall…

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 22d

[Tool] PsychoModels: "a platform that facilitates access to and communication about formal models in psychological science."

Database: www.psychomodels.org

Paper (free access): econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

The PsychoModels Database – Facilitating the Exchange of Formal Models | Zeitschrift für Psychologie

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 23d

[Review] Semantic memory is not invariant, but also constructive, like episodic memory.

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Constructing Memories, Episodic and Semantic

What is the nature of semantic memory? Philosophers and cognitive scientists have long held that semantic memory stores invariant knowledge structures to be retrieved as such. In this paper, I argue ...

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 24d

[Review] "Conversational remembering means recalling together shared and distributed past experiences".

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Conversational remembering

Conversational remembering is a core social process through which individuals co-construct personal and collective memories, maintain social bonds, an…

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 24d

[Review] Motor working memory: "a working memory system dedicated to encoding features of movement".

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Motor working memory

Working memory (WM) is crucial for planning, reasoning, and learning, and is one of the most extensively studied topics in cognitive psychology and ne…

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 24d

[Empirical study] "a potential role for sleep and dreaming in not just strengthening recent memories, but also in restabilizing recently activated remote memory traces." Open access.

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Experimentally inducing dreams of remote emotional memory

Statement of Significance This research is among the first to experimentally study how dreams incorporate remote memories from the long past. This is impor

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 28d

[Review] Impairment of episodic autobiographical memory reliving in aphantasia [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] but not in congenital blindness. Open access.

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Frontiers | Missing images: autobiographical memory in Aphantasia and blindness

Mental visual imagery, especially the ability to construct naturalistic scenes seems central to vivid episodic autobiographical memory (AM). This mini review...

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GDR Mémoire @gdrmemoire.bsky.social · 28d

[Événement] Le troisième colloque interdisciplinaire du GDR Mémoire se déroulera du 7 au 10 octobre 2025 à Cabourg. Tous les détails ici :

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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · Sep 5

How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬?

We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!

Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇

A neural network with episodic memory learns causal relationships between narrative events

Humans reflect on past memories to make sense of an ongoing event. Past work has shown that people retrieve causally related past events during comprehension, but the exact process by which this causa...

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 29d

[Review] Tasks to assess working memory in rodents.

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From Mazes to Automation: Modernizing Working Memory Research in Animal Models

Working memory (WM) is a core cognitive mechanism necessary for adaptive behavior. In the last few decades, scientists have studied WM using rodent mo…

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · 29d

[Model] "The present model supports the long-standing hypothesis that spatial navigation and memory functions can be unified with episodic memory, by giving explicit neural form to the idea." Open access.

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · Sep 9

The NICHD protocol [❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] training has significantly improved the quality of interrogation practices of child victims by French gendarmes despite the persistence of certain bad practices and a decline in performance over time.

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Child Interviewing Practices: Effects of the Implementation of the NICHD Protocol Training in France - Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

In France, training in the NICHD investigative interview protocol was implemented in 2016. Since then, no study has examined the French field practices in interviewing children. The aim of this resear...

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · Sep 3

[Empirical study] "Although overall susceptibility to false memories increases with age, there does not seem to be a common mechanism contributing to this age-related increase across false memory tasks." Open access.

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We become increasingly susceptible to various false memories as we age. Recent work has shown that in younger adults, associations between false memories in different paradigms are weak or non-existen...

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy to announce that Soline Felice will present at FOIS (Formal Ontology in Information Systems) 2025 our paper "Toward a semantic representation of memory entities" within the CAOS (Cognition and OntologieS) workshop.

memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · Sep 2

[Empirical study] "The tip-of-the-pen (TOP) is a phenomenon in which individuals fail to completely retrieve the orthographic information of a known character, and mainly occurs in Mandarin".

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Tip-of-the-pen states in Mandarin handwriting: The effect of brief non-target language exposure - Memory & Cognition

The tip-of-the-pen (TOP) is a phenomenon in which individuals fail to completely retrieve the orthographic information of a known character, and mainly occurs in Mandarin (a non-alphabetic language in...

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · Sep 1

[Review] A model of collective remembering and imaging.

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Collective remembering and imagining futures

This review explores the intertwined psychological processes of collective remembering and imagining, emphasizing their shared roots in present-day un…

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memovocab @memovocab.bsky.social · Aug 20

[Empirical study] The warning signal hypothesis: "details from the moments prior to a traumatic experience might be stored in memory as ‘warning signals’, to help identify potential danger in the future." Open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Autobiographical Memory for Emotional Events: A Test of the ‘Warning Signal’ Hypothesis

According to the warning signal hypothesis, memory may be enhanced for peripheral details occurring immediately before a traumatic experience to signal potential danger if encountered again. This ide....

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