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Jeni Pathman

@drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social

Assoc. prof at York University. MDLaB. Researcher studying memory and its development. Time, space & episodic memory. Memory for real-life and naturalistic events. #devcogneuro. https://pathman.info.yorku.ca

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Dr Jen Ryan@drjenryan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Memory problems will change how you see the world...literally 👀 Across two new papers, we examined the eye movement patterns of younger adults, older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and amnesic cases. 1/5

Jeni Pathman@drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Love this article! We need more real-life memory studies. Here is an example study and review from our lab…child development focus. cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Children’s memory “in the wild”: examining the temporal organization of free recall from a week-long camp at a local zoo - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Free-recall paradigms have greatly influenced our understanding of memory. The majority of this research involves laboratory-based events (e.g., word lists) that are studied and tested within minutes. This literature shows that adults recall events in a temporally organized way, with successive responses often coming from neighboring list positions (i.e., temporal clustering) and with enhanced memorability of items from the end of a list (i.e., recency). Temporal clustering effects are so robust that temporal organization is described as a fundamental memory property. Yet relatively little is known about the development of this temporal structure across childhood, and even less about children’s memory search for real-world events occurring over an extended period. In the present work, children (N = 144; 3 age groups: 4–5-year-olds, 6–7-year-olds, 8–10-year-olds) took part in a 5-day summer camp at a local zoo. The camp involved various dynamic events, including daily animal exhibit visits. On day 5, children were asked to recall all the animals they visited. We found that overall recall performance, in terms of number of animals recalled, improved steadily across childhood. Temporal organization and recency effects showed different developmental patterns. Temporal clustering was evident in the response sequences for all age groups and became progressively stronger across childhood. In contrast, the recency advantage, when characterized as a proportion of total responses, was stable across age groups. Thus, recall dynamics in early childhood parallel that seen in adulthood, with continued development of temporal organization across middle to late childhood.

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Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Researchers are designing studies that better represent how #memory works in daily life, leading to discoveries about how to intervene when it falters. @runnerteal.bsky.social 

Nora Newcombe@noranewcombe.bsky.social · last yr.

Among all the craziness, exciting and beautiful science from Jessica Cantlon’s lab — Intersection of spatial and numerical cognition in the developing brain url:https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/35/6/bhaf126/8157441

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · last yr.

@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences - Nature Human Behaviour

How does sleep transform the way we remember our experiences? This study finds that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related...

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Mariam Aly@mariamaly.bsky.social · 2y ago

Striking case of a patient with medial temporal lobe amnesia. He performs at chance in laboratory recognition memory tests, but has nearly perfect recognition accuracy for a real-world experience, with the memories persisting for 15 months! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Long-term retention of real-world experiences in a patient with profound amnesia

The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is known to be critical for healthy memory function, but patients with MTL damage can, under certain circumstances, dem…

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