ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Eye movements support behavioral pattern completion.
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- Dynamic interactions between memory and viewing behaviors: Insights from dyadic modeling of eye movements.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2023Article
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- Eye-movement replay supports episodic remembering.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Schema-related eye movements support episodic simulation.Consciousness and cognition · 2022Article
- Looking for the neural basis of memory.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2022Review
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- Gaze-pattern similarity at encoding may interfere with future memory.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
The ability to recall a detailed event from a simple reminder is supported by pattern completion, a cognitive operation performed by the hippocampus wherein existing mnemonic representations are retrieved from incomplete input. In behavioral studies, pattern completion is often inferred through the false endorsement of lure (i.e., similar) items as old. However, evidence that such a response is due to the specific retrieval of a similar, previously encoded item is severely lacking. We used eye movement (EM) monitoring during a partial-cue recognition memory task to index reinstatement of lure images behaviorally via the recapitulation of encoding-related EMs or gaze reinstatement. Participants reinstated encoding-related EMs following degraded retrieval cues and this reinstatement was negatively correlated with accuracy for lure images, suggesting that retrieval of existing representations (i.e., pattern completion) underlies lure false alarms. Our findings provide evidence linking gaze reinstatement and pattern completion and advance a functional role for EMs in memory retrieval.
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