Despite distinct classes of psychoactive drugs producing putatively unique states of
consciousness, there is surprising overlap in terms of their effects on episodic memory and …

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 …

This article focuses on familiarity, the form of memory allowing humans to recognize stimuli
that have been encountered before. We aim to emphasize its complex nature which includes …

The hippocampus has traditionally been thought to be critical for conscious explicit memory
but not necessary for unconscious implicit memory processing. In a recent study of a group …

Semantic memory, or general knowledge of the world, guides learning and supports the
formation and retrieval of new episodic memories. Behavioral evidence suggests that this …

Fluency is one of many cues that are involved in memory decisions. To date, however, the
extent to which fluency-based decisions are preserved in amnesia is not yet clear. In this …

Background: Ayahuasca is an Amazonian brew with 5-HT2A-dependent psychedelic effects
taken by religious groups globally. Recently, psychedelics have been shown to impair the …

The retrieval processes supporting recognition memory for faces were investigated using
event-related potentials (ERPs). The focus for analyses was ERP old/new effects, which are …

Not all memory processes are equally affected by aging. A widely accepted hypothesis is
that older adults rely more on familiarity-based processing, typically linked with the perirhinal …

Familiarity design has been widely shown to be beneficial for improving players' perception
and adoption of exergames, by reducing their perceived difficulty and complexity. However …