memovocab

[Événement] Le GDR Mémoire soutient le 11e symposium européen sur la mémoire de travail (EWoMS), qui se déroulera du 26 au 28 août 2026, à Lyon.

Toutes les informations utiles ici :

ewoms11.sciencesconf.org

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Do people remember where things are relative to their body (e.g. my left side) or relative to the environment (the North/uphill side)? The answer is both at once, according to my new paper now out in Psychological Science! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Testing before learning: Exploring the robustness of the pretesting effect - Memory & Cognition Retrieval practice, or taking tests after studying, is a highly effective strategy to enhance learning. Furthermore, pretesting, which involves attempting and failing to guess unknown information befo...

[Empirical study] Two errorful learning strategies – pretesting [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... and retrieval practice [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... – improved memory across age groups.

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Deep distortions in faces and places - Memory & Cognition Deep distortions occur when a person remembers multiple incompatible reality states as true, producing logical impossibilities. Those impossibilities include violations of basic logical principles suc...

[Empirical study] Deep distortions — in which people remember multiple incompatible realities as true, in violation of basic logic — can occur even with images of celebrity faces or physical locations. Open access.

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Adaptive episodic memory: How multiple memory representations drive behaviour in humans and non-humans | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society Episodic memory is a declarative long-term memory of a specific past experience. As such, it is multifaceted, encompassing both the objective and subjective components of that experience. These compon...

[Review] "memory reproduction and reconstruction may coexist, with the relative contribution of each depending on factors such as prior knowledge, time, and task demands".

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Preservationism in Memory Preservationism in the philosophy of memory is dead, according to many. This opinion is not ill-founded. It appears to be justified both by common sense and by empirical psychology. But in what follo...

[Review] Preservationism in memory: Dead or alive? Open access.

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How We Recall Recurring Events Katja Crone (TU Dortmund)

How do we recall the memory of events that may happen repeatedly, such as our own birthday?  Today at The Memory Palace, Katja Crone analyzes different types of memory, including what she terms "generic" memory, when it comes to frequent events.
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A neural state space for episodic memories Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …

[Review] "the proposed neural state space for episodic memories allows for dynamic changes in memory expression over time, which most theories of systems consolidation are not able to explain." Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Episodic memory neural mechanisms: patterns, connectivity, and developmental dynamics Episodic memory enables individuals to encode, store, and retrieve personally experienced events in their spatiotemporal contexts. This review synthes…

[Review] "this review provides a multimodal perspective on the cognitive neuroscience mechanisms underlying episodic memory formation." Open access.

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Molecular mechanisms mediating engram ensemble retrievability state in mice The information stored in a silent engram cannot be accessed by normal sensory retrieval cues but can be accessed in the short term by direct optogenetic reactivation. Silent engrams can be un-silence...

[Empirical study] Un-silencing the silent engram [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ]

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Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…

Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7

[Review] Three philosophical problems to solve in order to transform our understanding of episodic memory in non-human animals. Open access.

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Escaping the Jingle-Jangle Jungle: Increasing Conceptual Clarity in Psychology Using Large Language Models - Dirk U. Wulff, Rui Mata, 2025 Psychology has long struggled with conceptual redundancy, particularly in the form of “jingle-jangle fallacies,” in which different constructs share the same la...

[Review] "Large language models offer scalable tools for detecting, clarifying, and generating psychological constructs within a shared semantic space". Open access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Predictive coding has guided neuroscience for years but it does not account for the neuronal data. We review how patterns of feedback during spatial and temporal predictions are better captured by a family of opposing theories, collectively termed BELIEF.
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[Empirical study] "this study found that although LLMs exhibit greater consistency than human jurors and hold potential for reducing variability in legal decision making, they are not free from bias." psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Motivation as Neural Context for Adaptive Learning and Memory Formation Our memories shape our perception of the world and guide adaptive behavior. Rather than a veridical record of experiences, memory is selective. An accumulating body of work suggests that motivational ...

Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social!
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Le troisième colloque interdisciplinaire du GDR Mémoire, à Cabourg, a été un vrai succès ! Un grand merci au comité d’organisation, aux intervenant·e·s et participant·e·s pour la richesse des échanges et l’énergie partagée ! Venez revivre et partager vos souvenirs du colloque en réponse à ce post !

On the way to Cabourg to attend the third interdisciplinary conference of the GDR Mémoire!

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[Replication] The misinformation effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ]: Why your memories can be hacked.

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Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research - npj Science of Learning npj Science of Learning - Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research

[Review] Statistical learning: "lack of robust phenomena, issues with construct validity, and issues with establishing causality." Open access.

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Collective forgetting? Mnemonic silence and its nuanced role in shaping collective remembering Collective memories are the result of a nuanced interplay between what is collectively remembered and forgotten. Indeed, much like individual memory, …

[Review] The role of mnemonic silence (memories unsaid) in collective forgetting.

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Mapping the Imageless Mind: Towards a Taxonomy of Aphantasia

[Taxonomy] Three forms of aphantasia [❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/...: Neurological, psychogenic, and congenital. Open access.

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BEKHTEREV’S CASE: AMNESIA DUE TO BI-HIPPOCAMPAL DAMAGE 50 YEARS BEFORE HM The association between the hippocampus and memory has been largely shaped by the landmark case of patient HM in the mid-20th century. However, this m…

[History of memory] Vladimir M. Bekhterev described a case of amnesia due to bilateral hippocampal lesions in 1899, five decades before the patient HM. Open access.

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The pupillometric production effect: Evidence for enhanced processing preceding, during, and following production The production effect refers to superior memory performance for words read aloud than for those read silently. This finding has usually been attribute…

[Empirical study] Attention, pupillometry, and the production effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] in memory. Open access.

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Something false about conceptual metaphors Although Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory has been influential across many disciplines, little research has tested the psychological reality of conceptual metaphors (CMs) using estab...

Interesting use of the DRM paradigm to test Lakoff & Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory.

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Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events “Episodes” in memory are formed by the experience of dynamic events that unfold over time. However, just because a series of events unfold sequentiall…

Very excited to announce my student Andreas Arslan's first paper, "Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events" in Cognition!

Out now open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Andreas isn't on bsky, but he very kindly wrote a summary thread for me to share.

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The PsychoModels Database – Facilitating the Exchange of Formal Models | Zeitschrift für Psychologie

[Tool] PsychoModels: "a platform that facilitates access to and communication about formal models in psychological science."

Database: www.psychomodels.org

Paper (free access): econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

Constructing Memories, Episodic and Semantic What is the nature of semantic memory? Philosophers and cognitive scientists have long held that semantic memory stores invariant knowledge structures to be retrieved as such. In this paper, I argue ...

[Review] Semantic memory is not invariant, but also constructive, like episodic memory.

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Conversational remembering Conversational remembering is a core social process through which individuals co-construct personal and collective memories, maintain social bonds, an…

[Review] "Conversational remembering means recalling together shared and distributed past experiences".

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