Neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details.

ABSTRACT: Throughout our lives, we learn schemas that specify what types of events to expect in particular contexts and the temporal order in which these events usually occur. Here, our first goal was to investigate how such context-dependent temporal structures are represented in the brain during processing of temporally extended events. To accomplish this, we ran a 2-day fMRI study (N = 40) in which we exposed participants to many unique animated videos of weddings composed of sequences of rituals; each sequence originated from one of two fictional cultures (North and South), where rituals were shared across cultures, but the transition structure between these rituals differed across cultures. The results, obtained using representational similarity analysis, revealed that context-dependent tempora

SUBMITTER: Collin SHP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11830764 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature