Abstract

Memorizing time of an event may employ two processes (1) encoding of the absolute time of events within an episode, (2) encoding of its relative order. Here we study interaction between these two processes. We performed experiments in which one or several items were presented, after which participants were asked to report the time of occurrence of items. When a single item was presented, the distribution of reported times was quite wide. When two or three items were presented, the relative order among them strongly affected the reported time of each of them. Bayesian theory that takes into account the memory for the events order is compatible with the experimental data, in particular in terms of the effect of order on absolute time reports. Our results suggest that people do not deduce order from memorized time, instead people’s memory for absolute time of events relies critically on memorized order of the events.

Details

Title
Effects of order on memory of event times
Author
Naim Michelangelo 1 ; Katkov Mikhail 1 ; Tsodyks Misha 2 

 Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Neurobiology, Rehovot, Israel (GRID:grid.13992.30) (ISNI:0000 0004 0604 7563) 
 Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Neurobiology, Rehovot, Israel (GRID:grid.13992.30) (ISNI:0000 0004 0604 7563); Institute for Advanced Studies, Simons Center for Systems Biology, Princeton, USA (GRID:grid.472520.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 0581 1814) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2567803986
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.