Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

Neural representations are internal brain states that constitute the brain's model of the
external world or some of its features. In the presence of sensory input, a representation may …

Abstract Machines have achieved a broad and growing set of linguistic competencies,
thanks to recent progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Psychologists have …

Highlights•Episodic events are hierarchically represented across distinct brain regions.•The
mechanisms of forgetting differ across distinct levels in the episodic hierarchy.•Episodic …

When glancing at a magazine, or browsing the Internet, we are continuously exposed to
photographs. Despite this overflow of visual information, humans are extremely good at …

Humans can recollect past events in details (recollection) and/or know that an object,
person, or place has been encountered before (familiarity). During the last two decades …

Episodic memory declines with older age, but it is unresolved whether this decline reflects
reduced probability of successfully retrieving information from memory, or decreased …

Research studies in psychology typically use two-dimensional (2D) images of objects as
proxies for real-world three-dimensional (3D) stimuli. There are, however, a number of …

The hippocampus is thought to be an associative memory “convergence zone,” binding
together the multimodal elements of an experienced event into a single engram. This …

When observers retrieve simple visual features from working memory, two kinds of error are
typically confounded in their recall. First, responses reflect noise or variability within the …