NIH R01 · 2024
The neural and behavioral causes underlying differences between visual perception and memory
PROJECT SUMMARY Until recently, it was thought that our memories occur as a reactivation of perception – reconjuring the same visual information and neural patterns (dubbed the sensory reinstatement hypothesis; e.g., Buckner & Wheeler, 2001). However, in recent work, we observed surprising differences between perception and memory, with separate brain voxels and patterns involved in each process (Bainbridge et al., 2021b). We observed that memory representations in the brain lose rich high-level visual information, and that the neurons sensitive to memory are anterior to those sensitive to perception. Here, we hypothesize that memories become more semanticized representations of perception,…
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