Trial reportJournal of experimental psychology. General2013
The influence of context boundaries on memory for the sequential order of events.
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- Shifts in Context Affect Hippocampal Activity and the Sequence of Recall.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- The mosaic of experience: How individual differences in attention and working memory shape event segmentation.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2026Review
- The temporal organization of memory and emotion is reciprocally coupled.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Coarser event segmentation and impaired temporal order memory in subclinical ADHD.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Spaces and sequences in the hippocampus: a homological perspective.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Distortions of space and time in and around objects and events.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Specialized recall procedures.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Ignorance is bliss: Exploring the dual role of knowledge in event segmentation.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Prioritizing Detailed Item Memories Through Post-Encoding Motivation Requires Consolidation.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
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Abstract
Episodic memory allows people to reexperience the past by recovering the sequences of events that characterize those prior experiences. Although experience is continuous, people are able to selectively retrieve and reexperience more discrete episodes from their past, raising the possibility that some elements become tightly related to each other in memory, whereas others do not. The current series of experiments was designed to ask how shifts in context during an experience influence how people remember the past. Specifically, we asked how context shifts influence the ability to remember the relative order of past events, a hallmark of episodic memory. We found that memory for the order of events was enhanced within, rather than across, context shifts, or boundaries (Experiment 1). Next, we showed that this relative enhancement in order memory was eliminated when across-item associative processing was disrupted (Experiment 2), suggesting that context shifts have a selective effect on sequential binding. Finally, we provide evidence that the act of making order memory judgments involves the reactivation of representations that bridged the tested items (Experiment 3). Together, these data suggest that boundaries may serve to parse continuous experience into sequences of contextually related events and that this organization facilitates remembering the temporal order of events that share the same context.
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