Event boundaries shape temporal organization of memory by resetting temporal context

Yi Pu; Xiang-Zhen Kong; Charan Ranganath; Lucia Melloni

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28216-9

Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Event boundaries shape temporal organization of memory by resetting temporal context

Yi Pu,
Xiang-Zhen Kong,
Charan Ranganath,
Lucia Melloni

Affiliations

Yi Pu: Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
Xiang-Zhen Kong: Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University
Charan Ranganath: UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, University of California
Lucia Melloni: Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28216-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Our memory is temporally organized, but our internal clock can be distorted. The authors demonstrate how environmental changes (termed event boundaries) affect memory for event order, and provide a computational model to explain these effects.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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