Memory Mind & Media,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
2
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Abstract
Conversational
remembering
entails
that
people
engage
in
recalling
past
experiences,
which
may
themselves
have
been
shared.
comes
with
social
benefits
for
the
person
telling
narrative
and
one
receiving
it
(e.g.,
developing
strengthening
friendships,
fostering
entertainment,
consolidating
group
identity).
COVID-19
lockdowns
significantly
affected
interaction,
including
face-to-face
interactions
where
conversational
occurs.
The
aim
of
this
study
was
to
explore
how
WhatsApp
messages
supported
a
large
friends
living
Buenos
Aires
complete
lockdown
established
between
19
March
2020
6
November
2020.
To
accomplish
such
aim,
we
conducted
mixed-methods
longitudinal
study.
data
consisted
32,810
collected
over
period
700
consecutive
days,
from
13
April
2019
2021.
Our
shows
enabled
members
keep
connected
during
period.
This
occurred
by
together
situations,
events,
actions
associated
group's
identity.
use
represented
an
adaptive
collective
behaviour
response
changes
global
norms.
Learning & Memory,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
32(1), P. a053971 - a053971
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Emotional
events
hold
a
privileged
place
in
our
memories,
differing
accuracy
and
structure
from
memories
for
neutral
experiences.
Although
much
work
has
focused
on
the
pronounced
differences
memory
negative
experiences,
there
is
growing
evidence
that
positive
may
lead
to
more
holistic,
or
integrated,
memories.
However,
it
unclear
whether
these
affect-driven
changes
structure,
which
have
been
found
highly
controlled
laboratory
environments,
extend
real-world
episodic
We
ran
experiments
assessed
experiences
created
(Experiment
1)
and,
using
smartphones,
everyday
2).
complement
design
innovations
with
novel
analysis
approach
model
integration
both
settings.
Consistent
past
findings,
emotional
were
subjectively
remembered
strongly.
These
studies
also
revealed
features
of
indeed
integrated
within
memory,
real
world.
effects
specific
participants’
responses
during
encoding
rather
than
general
states
at
time
retrieval,
reflected
increase
between
multiple
features.
Together,
results
demonstrate
robust
events,
introduce
measure
integration,
highlight
importance
assessing
impact
emotion
beyond
laboratory.
Memory,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
32(2), P. 283 - 291
Published: Feb. 1, 2024
The
COVID-19
Pandemic
is
undoubtedly
one
of
the
most
impactful
and
ubiquitous
public
events
in
recent
history.
In
this
study,
we
focused
on
how
it
affected
organisation
autobiographical
memory
by
examining
often
individuals
referred
to
while
estimating
date
their
memories.
To
that
end,
collected
word-cued
memories
from
past,
event
dating
protocols,
COVID-relatedness
ratings,
transitional
impact
scores
first-year
undergraduates.
We
found
participants
frequently
recalled
COVID-related
memories,
used
as
a
temporal
landmark
for
both
unrelated
Importantly,
reference
estimates
was
frequent
references
other
important
life
periods
(high
school,
university).
Despite
affecting
lives
these
only
moderately
psychological
material
terms,
data
indicate
has
become
prominent
memory,
shaping
way
remember
situate
past
experiences.
Cognition & Emotion,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
38(7), P. 1048 - 1063
Published: May 7, 2024
When
recalling
autobiographical
events,
people
not
only
retrieve
event
details
but
also
the
feelings
they
experienced.
The
current
study
examined
whether
are
able
to
consistently
recall
intensity
of
past
associated
with
two
consequential
and
negatively
valenced
i.e.
9/11
attack
(
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
36(11), P. 2401 - 2414
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Abstract
Prediction
errors
drive
reinforcement
learning
and
organize
episodic
memory
into
distinct
contexts,
but
do
these
effects
interact?
Here,
we
review
the
roles
of
midbrain
dopamine,
locus
coeruleus,
hippocampus
in
event
cognition
to
propose
simulate
theoretical
influence
two
prediction
error
signals
integrating
versus
segmenting
events
memory.
We
suggest
that
signed
reward
can
build
mental
models
environments,
increasing
contextual
similarity
(integration)
experiences
with
stronger,
more
stable
expectations.
On
other
hand,
unsigned
signal
a
new
model
environment,
generating
shift
(segmentation)
between
crossed
them.
moreover
predicted
differences
give
rise
patterns
temporal-order
combined
ideas
computational
account
for
seemingly
paradoxical
pattern
where
greater
representational
distance
helps
order
within
context
impairs
it
across
contexts.
found
simulating
integration
segmentation
differentially
enabled
perform
associative
chaining,
which
involved
reactivating
items
tested
probes
assist
sequential
retrieval.
In
summary,
our
simulations
provide
unifying
explanation
varied
ways
neuromodulatory
systems
may
alter
