Curiosity plays a fundamental role for learning and memory, but the neural mechanisms that
stimulate curiosity and its effect on memory are poorly understood. Accumulating evidence …

Classic findings from the neuropsychological literature invariably indicated that
performances on tests of memory that can be accomplished without conscious awareness …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

Eye movements serve to accumulate information from the visual world, contributing to the
formation of coherent memory representations that support cognition and behavior. The …

Highlights•The oculomotor and hippocampal memory systems are both phylogenetically
old.•There is a vast structural and functional network linking the two systems.•Stored …

Decades of cognitive neuroscience research has shown that where we look is intimately
connected to what we remember. In this article, we review findings from human and …

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), representing the 'transitional zone'between normal
cognition and dementia, has become a novel topic in clinical research. Although early …

A fundamental assumption underlying most current theories of amnesia is that memory
impairments arise because previously studied information either is lost rapidly or is made …

The pupil response discriminates between old and new stimuli, with old stimuli
characterized by larger pupil dilation patterns than new stimuli. We sought to explore the …

The hippocampus creates distinct episodes from highly similar events through a process
called pattern separation and can retrieve memories from partial or degraded cues through …