The Role of Event Number and Duration in Time-Compressed Memory Replay.

ABSTRACT: Remembering the unfolding of past experiences usually takes less time than their actual duration. In this study, we examined the extent to which this temporal compression in memory depends on the number and duration of events that need to be maintained in a sequence. Participants were asked to watch and then mentally replay short videos depicting one, two, or three continuous events (i.e., people performing continuous actions in an uninterrupted way), each lasting 3, 6, 9, or 12 s. Across two experiments, we computed indices of remembering duration and temporal compression for each event. Results showed that event remembering duration was close to the actual event duration for short events, but smaller for longer ones (i.e., temporal compression was not systematic but occurred selectively

SUBMITTER: Leroy N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12768557 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature