ArticleJournal of cognitive neuroscience2021
Relating the Past with the Present: Information Integration and Segregation during Ongoing Narrative Processing.
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- The science of story characters: a neuroimaging perspective on antagonists in narrative engagement.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
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- Representational differentiation and integration within the hippocampal circuit during naturalistic stimuli.Communications biology · 2026Article
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- Functions of the posterior cingulate cortex and default network.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2025Article
- Key role of the default mode network in transfer of motor learning from previous experience.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Music-evoked reactivation during continuous perception is associated with enhanced subsequent recall of naturalistic events.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Shared disbelief and shared belief: Belief and disbelief as drivers of interpersonal neural synchronization during narrative processing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Uncovering a Timescale Hierarchy by Studying the Brain in a Natural Context.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- How a speaker herds the audience: multibrain neural convergence over time during naturalistic storytelling.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Heroes and villains: opposing narrative roles engage neural synchronization in the inferior frontal gyrus.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- How a speaker herds the audience: Multi-brain neural convergence over time during naturalistic storytelling.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- More than a moment: What does it mean to call something an 'event'?Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Review
- Probing neurodynamics of experienced emotions-a Hitchhiker's guide to film fMRI.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Review
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- The human brain reactivates context-specific past information at event boundaries of naturalistic experiences.Nature neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
This study examined how the brain dynamically updates event representations by integrating new information over multiple minutes while segregating irrelevant input. A professional writer custom-designed a narrative with two independent storylines, interleaving across minute-long segments (ABAB). In the last (C) part, characters from the two storylines meet and their shared history is revealed. Part C is designed to induce the spontaneous recall of past events, upon the recurrence of narrative motifs from A/B, and to shed new light on them. Our fMRI results showed storyline-specific neural patterns, which were reinstated (i.e., became more active) during storyline transitions. This effect increased along the processing timescale hierarchy, peaking in the default mode network. Similarly, the neural reinstatement of motifs was found during Part C. Furthermore, participants showing stronger motif reinstatement performed better in integrating A/B and C events, demonstrating the role of memory reactivation in information integration over intervening irrelevant events.
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