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Memory for spatio-temporal contextual details during the retrieval of naturalistic episodes

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Episodic memory entails the storage of events together with their spatio-temporal context and retrieval comprises the subjective experience of a link between the person who remembers and the episode itself. We used an encoding procedure with mobile-phones to generate experimentally-controlled episodes in the real world: object-images were sent to the participants' phone, with encoding durations up to 3 weeks. In other groups of participants, the same objects were encoded during the exploration of a virtual town (45 min) or using a standard laboratory paradigm, with pairs of object/place-images presented in a sequence of unrelated trials (15 min). At retrieval, we tested subjective memory for the objects (remember/familiar) and memory for the context (place and time). We found that accurate and confident context-memory increased the likelihood of “remember” responses, in all encoding contexts. We also tested the participants' ability to judge the temporal-order of the encoded episodes. Using a model of temporal similarity, we demonstrate scale-invariant properties of order-retrieval, but also highlight the contribution of non-chronological factors. We conclude that the mechanisms governing episodic memory retrieval can operate across a wide range of spatio-temporal contexts and that the multi-dimensional nature of the episodic traces contributes to the subjective experience of retrieval.
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hal-03935221 , version 1 (11-01-2023)

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Samy-Adrien Foudil, Claire Pleche, Emiliano Macaluso. Memory for spatio-temporal contextual details during the retrieval of naturalistic episodes. Scientific Reports, 2021, 11 (1), pp.14577. ⟨10.1038/s41598-021-93960-9⟩. ⟨hal-03935221⟩
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