Discrimination of mnemonic similarity is associated with short-term and long-term memory precision.

ABSTRACT: Remembering specific memories with precision relies on the differentiation of similar memory contents - a process commonly referred to as pattern separation and behaviorally operationalized as lure discrimination in the mnemonic similarity task. Although pattern separation is typically investigated in the context of long-term memory (LTM), recent research extends these findings to short-term memory (STM) within a mixture model framework, emphasizing the distinction between memory quality and quantity. According to this framework, pattern separation is associated with memory precision across STM and LTM, regardless of the overall memory likelihood. However, these associations among memory quality measures may persist without the mixture model assumption. In an alternative model, a unitary m

SUBMITTER: Xie W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12581949 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature