Encoding contexts are incidentally reinstated during competitive retrieval and track the temporal dynamics of memory interference
Bramao, Ines LU ; Jiang, Jiefeng ; Wagner, Anthony and Johansson, Mikael LU
(2022)
In Cerebral Cortex
32(22).
p.5020-5035
- Abstract
- The ability to remember an episode from our past is often hindered by competition from similar events. For example, if we want to remember the article a colleague recommended during the last lab-meeting, we may need to resolve interference from other article recommendations from the same colleague. This study investigates if the contextual features specifying the encoding episodes are incidentally reinstated during competitive memory retrieval. Competition between memories was created through the AB/AC interference paradigm. Individual word-pairs were presented embedded in a slowly drifting real-word like context. Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) of high temporal-resolution electroencephalographic (EEG) data was used to investigate... (More)
- The ability to remember an episode from our past is often hindered by competition from similar events. For example, if we want to remember the article a colleague recommended during the last lab-meeting, we may need to resolve interference from other article recommendations from the same colleague. This study investigates if the contextual features specifying the encoding episodes are incidentally reinstated during competitive memory retrieval. Competition between memories was created through the AB/AC interference paradigm. Individual word-pairs were presented embedded in a slowly drifting real-word like context. Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) of high temporal-resolution electroencephalographic (EEG) data was used to investigate context reactivation during memory retrieval. Behaviorally, we observed proactive (but not retroactive) interference; that is, performance for AC competitive retrieval was worse compared to a control DE non-competitive retrieval, whereas AB retrieval did not suffer from competition. Neurally, proactive interference was accompanied by an early reinstatement of the competitor context and interference resolution was associated with the ensuing reinstatement of the target context. Together, these findings provide novel evidence showing that the encoding contexts of competing discrete events are incidentally reinstated during competitive retrieval and that such reinstatement tracks retrieval competition and subsequent interference resolution. (Less)
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- Bramao, Ines
LU
; Jiang, Jiefeng
; Wagner, Anthony
and Johansson, Mikael
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-02-01
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Electroencephalography (EEG), Episodic Memory, Memory Reactivation, Multivariate-pattern analysis (MVPA)
- in
- Cerebral Cortex
- volume
- 32
- issue
- 22
- pages
- 5020 - 5035
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
- external identifiers
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- pmid:35106538
- scopus:85143710293
- ISSN
- 1460-2199
- DOI
- 10.1093/cercor/bhab529
- project
- Measuring memory reactivation: The temporal dynamics of remembering
- Learning and remembering: The cognitive neuroscience of memory for real-world events
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- English
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