Contiguity is one of the major predictors of recall dynamics in human episodic memory. But
there are many competing theories of how the memory system gives rise to contiguity. Here …

How do individuals decide to act based on a rewarding status quo versus an unexplored
choice that might yield a better outcome? Recent evidence suggests that individuals may …

Successful memory encoding is marked by increases in 30–100 Hz gamma-band activity in
a broad network of brain regions. Activity in the 3–8 Hz theta band has also been shown to …

Noninvasive neuroimaging studies have revealed a network of brain regions that activate
during human memory encoding; however, the relative timing of such activations remains …

Memory is often better for emotional rather than neutral stimuli. The benefit for emotional items
could be the result of an associative mechanism whereby items are associated to a slowly …

In everyday life, we often must remember the past in the absence of helpful cues in the
environment. In these cases, the brain directs retrieval by relying on internally maintained cues …

The hippocampus is thought to compare predicted events with current perceptual input,
generating a mismatch signal when predictions are violated. However, most prior studies have …

Visual attention is thought to be supported by three large-scale frontoparietal networks: the
frontoparietal control network (FPCN), the dorsal attention network (DAN), and the ventral …

To understand how memories are successfully formed, scientists have compared neural
activity during the encoding of subsequently remembered and forgotten items. Though this …

When new events overlap with past events, there is a natural tradeoff between encoding the
new event and retrieving the past event. Given the ubiquity of overlap among memories, this …