Retrieval-Based Model Accounts for Striking Profile of Episodic Memory and Generalization.

ABSTRACT: A fundamental theoretical tension exists between the role of the hippocampus in generalizing across a set of related episodes, and in supporting memory for individual episodes. Whilst the former requires an appreciation of the commonalities across episodes, the latter emphasizes the representation of the specifics of individual experiences. We developed a novel version of the hippocampal-dependent paired associate inference (PAI) paradigm, which afforded us the unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between episodic memory and generalization in parallel. Across four experiments, we provide surprising evidence that the overlap between object pairs in the PAI paradigm results in a marked loss of episodic memory. Critically, however, we demonstrate that superior generalization abi

SUBMITTER: Banino A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4980665 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature