Multiple routes to enhanced memory for emotionally relevant events

N Rouhani, Y Niv, MJ Frank, L Schwabe - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Events associated with aversive or rewarding outcomes are prioritized in memory. This
memory boost is commonly attributed to the elicited affective response, closely linked to …

Building and breaking the chain: A model of reward prediction error integration and segmentation of memory

N Rouhani, D Clewett, JW Antony - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Prediction errors drive reinforcement learning and organize episodic memory into distinct
contexts, but do these effects interact? Here, we review the roles of midbrain dopamine, the …

Large language models can segment narrative events similarly to humans

S Michelmann, M Kumar, KA Norman… - Behavior Research …, 2025 - Springer
Humans perceive discrete events such as “restaurant visits” and “train rides” in their
continuous experience. One important prerequisite for studying human event perception is …

The “Naturalistic Free Recall” dataset: four stories, hundreds of participants, and high-fidelity transcriptions

O Raccah, P Chen, TM Gureckis, D Poeppel, VA Vo - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The “Naturalistic Free Recall” dataset provides transcribed verbal recollections of
four spoken narratives collected from 229 participants. Each participant listened to two …

The COVID-19 pandemic as autobiographical period: evidence from an event dating study

Ö Ekinci, NR Brown - Memory, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 Pandemic is undoubtedly one of the most impactful and ubiquitous public
events in recent history. In this study, we focused on how it affected the organisation of …

Event representation at the scale of ordinary experience

SR Yousif, SH Lee, BE Sherman, A Papafragou - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Weeks are divided into weekdays and weekends; years into semesters and seasons; lives
into stages like childhood, adulthood, and adolescence. How does the structure of …

Autobiographical memory in contact tracing: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

C Rossi-Arnaud, S Mastroberardino, P Spataro… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The recent COVID-19 pandemic has compelled various governments to trace all
contacts of a confirmed case, as well as to identify the locations visited by infected …

Stability and malleability of emotional autobiographical memories

V Wardell, DJ Palombo - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2024 - nature.com
Despite the vivid and convincing detail with which people can recollect emotional
experiences from their past, emotional memory is malleable. As time passes, the memories …

2020 feels slow, long, and far away: Time distortion due to the COVID‐19 pandemic

J Castellà, T Ueno, RJ Allen - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID pandemic has been an unforeseen situation in which uncertainty, social
distance, loss of stability, and significant changes have proven to have detrimental effects on …

The day-of-the-week effect is resilient to routine change

AMA Wagelmans, V van Wassenhove - Memory & Cognition, 2024 - Springer
Temporal landmarks are salient events that structure the way humans think about time. They
may be personal events, such as one's birthday, or shared cultural events, such as the …