Dani Parra

University of Notre Dame

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Gabriel A. Radvansky

University of Notre Dame

Klaudia M Malik

University of Notre Dame

Sean M Dageforde

University of Notre Dame

Noah Crockett

Robin M Jensen

University of Notre Dame

Abigail Doolen

University of Notre Dame

Lucas L Christensen

University of Notre Dame

Panayiotis P Ketonis

University of Notre Dame

James R. Brockmole

University of Notre Dame

Thomas Q McClelland

University of Notre Dame

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University of Notre Dame

Michigan State University

Notre Dame of Dadiangas University

University of Cambridge

St Petersburg University

Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology

Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Academy of Medical Sciences

Research Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

Moscow State University

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Walking Through Doorways Causes Forgetting But it May Help Understanding

Gabriel A. Radvansky Noah Crockett Dani Parra Abigail Doolen

10.2139/ssrn.5063124

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Human retrograde amnesia and memory consolidation

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2024)

Panayiotis P Ketonis Thomas Q McClelland Dani Parra Gabriel A. Radvansky

This paper reports a reassessment of published literature on the question of whether retrograde amnesia data from patients with severe trauma supports the idea that there is ongoing consolidation of long-lasting memories. That is, memory consolidation continues for decades with older memories being increasingly consolidated, and, thus, more protected from forgetting. Our analysis was limited to patients with specific traumas rather than neurodegenerative conditions that can be complicated by the additional presence of significant anterograde amnesia. These constraints were used because trauma patients have a definitive start to their amnesia allowing comparison of their memories before this event, unlike when there is an undefined amnesia onset. Our results revealed that the standard account of retrograde amnesia only fits part of the data, with more than half not conforming to this account. Specifically, damage to different brain areas was associated with different patterns of retrograde amnesia. Those cases where the standard retrograde amnesia account was held tended to involve damage to the hippocampus and temporal lobes, as expected. Future directions to better understand the influence of retrograde amnesia and memory consolidation are suggested.

Retrograde amnesia

Anterograde amnesia

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Retrospective memory

Memory disorder

10.3758/s13423-024-02567-4

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The effect of temporal context on memory for art

Acta Psychologica (2024)

Sean M Dageforde Dani Parra Klaudia M Malik Lucas L Christensen Robin M Jensen

Although considerable research has been done on memory for temporal information, as well as on the relationship between context and cognition, not much is known about the influence of temporal context on memory formation and retention. In this study, given that our sample comes from a largely Roman Catholic population, we used religious practices that occur throughout the calendar year to operationalize temporal context into two religious seasons (Lent and Ordinary Time). In addition, we used religious art to assess experience and memory as a function of whether there was temporal congruity or incongruity. This allowed us to explore different levels of memory representation; namely, memory for perceptual details of the art, memory for more inferential understanding of the art, and autobiographical memory for the initial experience of the art. Participants viewed 22 representational and abstract artworks during either Lent or Ordinary Time. After viewing, memory was tested at immediate, 1-day, and 7-day delays. We expected that the congruent temporal context (i.e., Lent) would lead to more activated semantic knowledge, which would then aid memory encoding and retention. This was the case only for perceptual details of the art. In addition, during Lent, forgetting followed a more linear pattern. These results suggest that priming semantic knowledge through temporal context leads encoding to focus on low-level information, as opposed to the processing of more complex information. Overall, these findings suggest that temporal context can influence cognition, but to a limited extent.

10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104349

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