Enhanced memory for scenes presented at behaviorally relevant points in time.

The ability to remember a briefly presented scene depends on a number of factors, such as its saliency, novelty, degree of threat, or behavioral relevance to a task. Here, however, we show that the encoding of a scene into memory may depend not only on what the scene contains but also when it occurs...

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Main Authors: Jeffrey Y Lin, Amanda D Pype, Scott O Murray, Geoffrey M Boynton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-03-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2838752?pdf=render