How do collective events shape how we remember our lives? We leveraged advances in
natural language processing as well as a rich, longitudinal assessment of 1,000 Americans …

Many human behavioral and brain imaging studies have used narratively structured stimuli
(eg, written, audio, or audiovisual stories) to better emulate real-world experience in the …

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 …

Schemas are rich and complex knowledge structures about the typical unfolding of events in
a context. For example, a schema of a lovely dinner at a restaurant. Schemas are central in …

We experience surprise when reality conflicts with our expectations. When we encounter
such expectation violations in psychological tasks and daily life, are we experiencing …

We can use prior knowledge of temporal structure to make predictions about how an event
will unfold, and this schematic knowledge has been shown to impact the way that event …