Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Le troisième colloque interdisciplinaire du GDR Mémoire, à Cabourg, a été un vrai succès ! Un grand merci au comité d’organisation, aux intervenant·e·s et participant·e·s pour la richesse des échanges et l’énergie partagée ! Venez revivre et partager vos souvenirs du colloque en réponse à ce post !

On the way to Cabourg to attend the third interdisciplinary conference of the GDR Mémoire!

‪ [Replication] The misinformation effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ]: Why your memories can be hacked. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d....

[Review] Statistical learning: "lack of robust phenomena, issues with construct validity, and issues with establishing causality." Open access. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

[Review] The role of mnemonic silence (memories unsaid) in collective forgetting. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Taxonomy] Three forms of aphantasia [❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/...: Neurological, psychogenic, and congenital. Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[History of memory] Vladimir M. Bekhterev described a case of amnesia due to bilateral hippocampal lesions in 1899, five decades before the patient HM. Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Empirical study] Attention, pupillometry, and the production effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] in memory. Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting use of the DRM paradigm to test Lakoff & Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory. 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 2/ link.springer.com/article/10.3... 3/ brill.com/view/journal...

Very excited to announce my student Andreas Arslan's first paper, "Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events" in Cognition! Out now open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Andreas isn't on bsky, but he very kindly wrote a summary thread for me to share. 🧵 (1/24)

[Tool] PsychoModels: "a platform that facilitates access to and communication about formal models in psychological science." Database: www.psychomodels.org Paper (free access): econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

[Review] Semantic memory is not invariant, but also constructive, like episodic memory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

[Review] "Conversational remembering means recalling together shared and distributed past experiences". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Review] Motor working memory: "a working memory system dedicated to encoding features of movement". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Empirical study] "a potential role for sleep and dreaming in not just strengthening recent memories, but also in restabilizing recently activated remote memory traces." Open access. academic.oup.com/sleepadvance...

[Review] Impairment of episodic autobiographical memory reliving in aphantasia [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] but not in congenital blindness. Open access. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cog...

[Événement] Le troisième colloque interdisciplinaire du GDR Mémoire se déroulera du 7 au 10 octobre 2025 à Cabourg. Tous les détails ici : gdrmemcab.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr

How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬? We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do! Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇

[Review] Tasks to assess working memory in rodents. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Model] "The present model supports the long-standing hypothesis that spatial navigation and memory functions can be unified with episodic memory, by giving explicit neural form to the idea." Open access. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-61

The NICHD protocol [❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] training has significantly improved the quality of interrogation practices of child victims by French gendarmes despite the persistence of certain bad practices and a decline in performance over time. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

[Empirical study] "Although overall susceptibility to false memories increases with age, there does not seem to be a common mechanism contributing to this age-related increase across false memory tasks." Open access. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Happy to announce that Soline Felice will present at FOIS (Formal Ontology in Information Systems) 2025 our paper "Toward a semantic representation of memory entities" within the CAOS (Cognition and OntologieS) workshop.

[Empirical study] "The tip-of-the-pen (TOP) is a phenomenon in which individuals fail to completely retrieve the orthographic information of a known character, and mainly occurs in Mandarin". link.springer.com/article/10.3...?

[Review] A model of collective remembering and imaging. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Empirical study] The warning signal hypothesis: "details from the moments prior to a traumatic experience might be stored in memory as ‘warning signals’, to help identify potential danger in the future." Open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"forgetting should not be seen as a failure in retrieving a specific experience, but rather as the successful recall of an alternative one." Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Our main message is that wrongful convictions long attributed to the unreliability of eyewitness memory may instead more often reflect the failure of the criminal justice system to listen to what the witnesses said on the very first test". Open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

***🚨 New Paper 🚨*** Both #sleep and eyes-closed waking rest improve memory. But sleep also increases FALSE recall in some paradigms. Q: Does eyes-closed rest similarly increase false recall? A: No. Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYgb3qNaA... #sleeppeeps #psychscisky 🧠🟦

[Review] "While therapists generally appear to recognize the malleable and reconstructive nature of memory, many simultaneously hold beliefs that may foster suggestive practices." Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is the weapon focus effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] replicable? psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

"Remembering seems to be possible without representational memory." Open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

[Review] Very interesting paper! Highly recommended! Open access ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

[Empirical study] Do large language models predict children's memory performance and suggestibility in a legal context better than humans? Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Review] An in-depth look at the conceptual tensions in autobiographical memory research through the lenses of Endel Tulving and Martin Conway. Open access. periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/ind...

[Review] Potentially traumatic events can cause the reminiscence bump [❓https://loterre.istex.fr/P66/fr/page/-V6NV3J15-0 ] to shift to other periods of life. jle.com/fr/revues/nr...

[Book] La mémoire refoulée : histoire et critique d'une théorie dangereuse [Repressed memories: History and critical analysis of a dangerous theory] by Olivier Dodier. www.book-e-book.com/livres/222-1...

[Review] "The purpose of this review is to show how mental simulation, despite its appeal as a central asset of embodied cognition, cannot be conceived as a single theoretical construct." Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The third interdisciplinary conference of the Memory Thematic Network (GDR Mémoire) is open for registration (Cabourg, France, October 7-10, 2025). Don’t miss out on this opportunity to discuss memory in all its dimensions! gdrmemcab.sciencesconf.org

[Review] "attentional selection does not rely on separate processes but instead emerges as an adaptive resolution of competing priorities within a unified neural and behavioral architecture." Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Review] Advantages and limitations of digital tools in identifying early cognitive decline. Open access. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

[Empirical study] "we found robust evidence that participants’ temporal memories are systematically distorted: Repeated information was consistently remembered as having initially occurred earlier in time than information presented only once." Open access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"what psychologists have historically measured as EF [executive function] in fact conflates latent, universal cognitive control capacities with culturally specific patterns of responding." Open access. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

[Empirical study] Other mental processes than inhibition explain performance in the antisaccade task. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

[Update] A new feature in the thesaurus of memory: when available, the dataset is now directly associated with the paper. Click on the “i” icon to access all the metadata of a bibliographic reference in a tooltip. loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/

[Review] How people remember their nation’s past? Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Review] Are flashbulb memories [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] special? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Empirical study] "Unlike studies using semantic false memory paradigms (i.e., DRM), our results suggest that script-based memory distortions are not significantly modulated by sleep." Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[Review] A broadened taxonomy for understanding human memory, expanding beyond traditional brain-based models to include external memory (social and technological), various biological systems throughout the body, and collective memory. 🔓 www.frontiersin.org/journals/cog...