The binding structure of event elements in episodic memory and the role of animacy.

ABSTRACT: Experienced events consist of several elements which need to be bound together in memory to represent the event in a coherent manner. Given such bindings, the retrieval of one event element should be related to the successful retrieval of another element of the same event, thus leading to a stochastic dependency of the retrieval of event elements. The way in which bindings are structured is not yet clearly established and only few moderators of the binding of event elements have been identified. We present results from three experiments aiming to distinguish between an integrated binding structure, in which event elements are bound into a unitary representation, and a hierarchical binding structure, in which event elements are preferentially bound to specific types of elements. Experiments

SUBMITTER: Schreiner MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10031638 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature