ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
An Attentional Code for Memory
Declarative memory is fundamentally relational. We not only remember things or events, but also whether and how they are related to each other. Cracking the mental code that supports relational memory is one of the greatest challenges of cognitive neuroscience. Here I suggest that memories are relationally encoded through an attentional repertoire, such that different types of conceptual relationships (before/after, bigger than, part of, caused by, etc.) correspond to different dynamic attentional patterns. Such an attentional code is largely decodable from eye-movement and embodies the structure of our relational knowledge. I provide preliminary data showing that spontaneous eye movements…
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