How do people preserve mental continuity when tasks are interrupted? One established pathway runs through the hippocampus, which stores snapshots of our mental context for later reinstatement. We prop...

Scientific Reports - Nested contextual change and the temporal compression of episodic memory

Here the authors model interactions between episodic and semantic memory as ‘retrieval-augmented generation’, explaining consolidation of structure from sequential experience, the reconstruction and d...

In daily life, we often draw inferences about novel associations from prior experiences. This ability, associative inference, is thought to be a ke...

Li et al. show that recurrent neural networks optimized for free recall discover diverse, human-like memory strategies beyond classical temporal context models, with top models using an index-based me...

The within > across effect refers to improved memory for information cued from within the same event compared to across events. Although this effect has been...

Miao et al. find that recognizing social interactions in third-person narratives engages canonical brain areas subserving theory of mind. Using theory of mind recruits additional areas linked to action understanding.

Using repeated autobiographical recall, this study shows that internal thoughts and feelings are less stable over time than externally oriented details, yet their retention and stability contribute to...

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Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02403-wAcross three experiments, Baror et al. show that context shifts reduce serial dependence (bias towards prior choices) and shape memory at event boundaries.

Nicholas and Mattar found that people use episodic memory to make decisions when it is unclear what will be needed in the future. These findings reveal how the rich representational capacity of episod...

Humans reflect on past memories to make sense of an ongoing event. Past work has shown that people retrieve causally related past events during comprehension, but the exact process by which this causa...

Several effects have been discovered to explain memory for lists of words. However, demonstrations of these effects are scant for other common types of stimuli like short videos. Here, we had parti...

Classical models of memory in psychology and neuroscience rely on similarity-based retrieval of stored patterns, where similarity is a function of retrieval cues and the stored patterns. While parsimo...

Memories of our past experiences enable us to reconstruct (in the present) our past better than our future. Here, the authors show that we are also able to better reconstruct the pasts (versus futures...