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ArticleConsciousness and cognition2022

Schema-related eye movements support episodic simulation.

Jordana S Wynn, Ruben D I Van Genugten, Signy Sheldon, Daniel L Schacter

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4 authors.

Jordana S WynnDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Electronic address: jordanawynn@g.harvard.edu.
Ruben D I Van GenugtenDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
Signy SheldonDepartment of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Daniel L SchacterDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

Funding

Episodic Retrieval and Problem Solving in AgingR01AG008441 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI SCHACTER, DANIEL L · 1989 to 2022
$3.1M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG008441
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent work indicates that eye movements support the retrieval of episodic memories by reactivating the spatiotemporal context in which they were encoded. Although similar mechanisms have been thought to support simulation of future episodes, there is currently no evidence favoring this proposal. In the present study, we investigated the role of eye movements in episodic simulation by comparing the gaze patterns of individual participants imagining future scene and event scenarios to across-participant gaze templates for those same scenarios, reflecting their shared features (i.e., schemas). Our results provide novel evidence that eye movements during episodic simulation in the face of distracting visual noise are (1) schema-specific and (2) predictive of simulation success. Together, these findings suggest that eye movements support episodic simulation via reinstatement of scene and event schemas, and more broadly, that interactions between the memory and oculomotor effector systems may underlie critical cognitive processes including constructive episodic simulation.

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Eye MovementsMemory, EpisodicComputer SimulationForecastingHumansImaginationMental RecallEye movementsImaginationMemorySchemasSimulation

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PMID35240421
PMCPMC9007866

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