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Relating the past with the present: Information integration and segregation during ongoing narrative processing

View ORCID ProfileClaire H. C. Chang, Christina Lazaridi, Yaara Yeshurun, Kenneth A. Norman, Uri Hasson
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.16.908731
Claire H. C. Chang
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-1010, USA
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Christina Lazaridi
2School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
3Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-1010, USA
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Yaara Yeshurun
4School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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Kenneth A. Norman
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-1010, USA
5Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-1010, USA
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Uri Hasson
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-1010, USA
5Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-1010, USA
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Abstract

This study examined how the brain dynamically updates event representations by integrating new information over multiple minutes while segregating irrelevant input. A professional writer custom-designed a narrative with two independent storylines, interleaving across minute-long segments (ABAB). In the last (C) part, characters from the two storylines meet and their shared history is revealed. Part C is designed to induce the spontaneous recall of past events, upon the recurrence of narrative motifs from A/B, and to shed new light on them. Our fMRI results showed storyline-specific neural patterns, which were reinstated (i.e. became more active) during storyline transitions. This effect increased along the processing timescale hierarchy, peaking in the default mode network. Similarly, the neural reinstatement of motifs was found during part C. Furthermore, participants showing stronger motif reinstatement performed better in integrating A/B and C events, demonstrating the role of memory reactivation in information integration over intervening irrelevant events.

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Relating the past with the present: Information integration and segregation during ongoing narrative processing
Claire H. C. Chang, Christina Lazaridi, Yaara Yeshurun, Kenneth A. Norman, Uri Hasson
bioRxiv 2020.01.16.908731; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.16.908731
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Relating the past with the present: Information integration and segregation during ongoing narrative processing
Claire H. C. Chang, Christina Lazaridi, Yaara Yeshurun, Kenneth A. Norman, Uri Hasson
bioRxiv 2020.01.16.908731; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.16.908731

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