ArticleCerebral cortex communications2020
Restricting Visual Exploration Directly Impedes Neural Activity, Functional Connectivity, and Memory.
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- Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Effective connectivity between the medial temporal lobes and early visual cortex modulated by unrestricted viewing predicts memory retrieval and gaze reinstatement.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Common structure of saccades and microsaccades in visual perception.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Dynamic interactions between memory and viewing behaviors: Insights from dyadic modeling of eye movements.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2023Article
- Eye movements dissociate between perceiving, sensing, and unconscious change detection in scenes.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
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Abstract
We move our eyes to explore the visual world, extract information, and create memories. The number of gaze fixations-the stops that the eyes make-has been shown to correlate with activity in the hippocampus, a region critical for memory, and with later recognition memory. Here, we combined eyetracking with fMRI to provide direct evidence for the relationships between gaze fixations, neural activity, and memory during scene viewing. Compared to free viewing, fixating a single location reduced: 1) subsequent memory, 2) neural activity along the ventral visual stream into the hippocampus, 3) neural similarity between effects of subsequent memory and visual exploration, and 4) functional connectivity among the hippocampus, parahippocampal place area, and other cortical regions. Gaze fixations were uniquely related to hippocampal activity, even after controlling for neural effects due to subsequent memory. Therefore, this study provides key causal evidence supporting the notion that the oculomotor and memory systems are intrinsically related at both the behavioral and neural level. Individual gaze fixations may provide the basic unit of information on which memory binding processes operate.
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