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 …

Throughout the educational system, students experiencing active learning pedagogy
perform better and fail less than those taught through direct instruction. Can this be ascribed …

FMRI studies of autobiographical memory (AM) retrieval typically ask subjects to retrieve
memories silently to avoid speech-related motion artifacts. Recently, some fMRI studies …

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 …

The hippocampus has a unique microarchitecture, is situated at the nexus of multiple
macroscale functional networks, contributes to numerous cognitive as well as affective …

Generalization to new tasks requires learning of task representations that accurately reflect
the similarity structure of the task space. Here, we argue that episodic memory (EM) plays an …

Every day, we encounter far more information than we could possibly remember. Thus, our
memory systems must organize and prioritize the details from an experience that can …

Our naturalistic experiences are organized into memories through multiple processes,
including novelty encoding, memory formation, and retrieval. However, the neural …

The memory system is adaptive in so far as it is able to provide the most robust predictions of
what will happen next in our environment. Three means through which it can do this are …