Sharot, T;
Davidson, ML;
Carson, MM;
Phelps, EA;
(2008)
Eye Movements Predict Recollective Experience.
PLOS ONE
, 3
(8)
, Article e2884. 10.1371/journal.pone.0002884.
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Abstract
Previously encountered stimuli can bring to mind a vivid memory of the episodic context in which the stimulus was first experienced ("remembered'' stimuli), or can simply seem familiar ("known'' stimuli). Past studies suggest that more attentional resources are required to encode stimuli that are subsequently remembered than known. However, it is unclear if the attentional resources are distributed differently during encoding and recognition of remembered and known stimuli. Here, we record eye movements while participants encode photos, and later while indicating whether the photos are remembered, known or new. Eye fixations were more clustered during both encoding and recognition of remembered photos relative to known photos. Thus, recognition of photos that bring to mind a vivid memory for the episodic context in which they were experienced is associated with less distributed overt attention during encoding and recognition. The results suggest that remembering is related to encoding of a few distinct details of a photo rather than the photo as a whole. In turn, during recognition remembering may be trigged by enhanced memory for the salient details of the photos.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Eye Movements Predict Recollective Experience |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0002884 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002884 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2008 Sharot et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health, MH62104 to EAP. |
| Keywords: | RECOGNITION MEMORY, RELATIONAL MEMORY, EMOTIONAL EVENTS, FAMILIARITY, ATTENTION, BEHAVIOR, AMNESIA |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1334680 |
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