Narratives bridge the divide between distant events in episodic memory.

ABSTRACT: Many studies suggest that information about past experience, or episodic memory, is divided into discrete units called "events." Yet we can often remember experiences that span multiple events. Events that occur in close succession might simply be linked because of their proximity to one another, but we can also build links between events that occur farther apart in time. Intuitively, some kind of organizing principle should enable temporally distant events to become bridged in memory. We tested the hypothesis that episodic memory exhibits a narrative-level organization, enabling temporally distant events to be better remembered if they form a coherent narrative. Furthermore, we tested whether post-encoding memory consolidation is necessary to integrate temporally distant events. In three

SUBMITTER: Cohn-Sheehy BI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8546012 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature