Neural representations of naturalistic events are updated as our understanding of the past changes.

ABSTRACT: The brain actively reshapes our understanding of past events in light of new incoming information. In the current study, we ask how the brain supports this updating process during the encoding and recall of naturalistic stimuli. One group of participants watched a movie ('The Sixth Sense') with a cinematic 'twist' at the end that dramatically changed the interpretation of previous events. Next, participants were asked to verbally recall the movie events, taking into account the new 'twist' information. Most participants updated their recall to incorporate the twist. Two additional groups recalled the movie without having to update their memories during recall: one group never saw the twist; another group was exposed to the twist prior to the beginning of the movie, and thus the twist infor

SUBMITTER: Zadbood A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9842385 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature