The causal structure and computational value of narratives

J Chen, AM Bornstein - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
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 …

Hippocampal-cortical interactions during event boundaries support retention of complex narrative events

AJ Barnett, M Nguyen, J Spargo, R Yadav… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
According to most memory theories, encoding involves continuous communication between
the hippocampus and neocortex, but recent work has shown that key moments at the end of …

Towards an ecologically valid naturalistic cognitive neuroscience of memory and event cognition

R Pooja, P Ghosh, V Sreekumar - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
The landscape of human memory and event cognition research has witnessed a
transformative journey toward the use of naturalistic contexts and tasks. In this review, we …

Edge-centric analysis of time-varying functional brain networks with applications in autism spectrum disorder

FZ Esfahlani, L Byrge, J Tanner, O Sporns… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
The interaction between brain regions changes over time, which can be characterized using
time-varying functional connectivity (tvFC). The common approach to estimate tvFC uses …

Causal and Chronological Relationships Predict Memory Organization for Nonlinear Narratives

J Antony, A Lozano, P Dhoat, J Chen… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
While recounting an experience, one could employ multiple strategies to transition from one
part to the next. For instance, if the event was learned out of linear order, one could recall …

Neural activity differentiates novel and learned event boundaries

Y Ezzyat, A Clements - Journal of Neuroscience, 2024 - jneurosci.org
People parse continuous experiences at natural breakpoints called event boundaries, which
is important for understanding an environment's causal structure and for responding to …

Engram mechanisms of memory linking and identity

A Choucry, M Nomoto, K Inokuchi - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Memories are thought to be stored in neuronal ensembles referred to as engrams. Studies
have suggested that when two memories occur in quick succession, a proportion of their …

[HTML][HTML] Discrete memories of a continuous world: A working memory perspective on event segmentation

B Güler, Z Adıgüzel, B Uysal, E Günseli - Current Research in Behavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
We perceive the world in a continuum but remember our past as discrete episodic events.
Dominant models of event segmentation suggest that prediction errors or contextual …

Learning and processing the ordinal information of temporal sequences in recurrent neural circuits

Z Chu, Q Guo, J Cheng, B Ho… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Temporal sequence processing is fundamental in brain cognitive functions. Experimental
data has indicated that the representations of ordinal information and contents of temporal …

Prediction error is out of context: The dominance of contextual stability in segmenting episodic events

B Güler, F Serin, E Gunseli - 2023 - osf.io
Our everyday experiences unfold continuously, yet we naturally segment them into distinct
memory units—a phenomenon known as event segmentation. While event segmentation is …