Tracking the relation between gist and item memory over the course of long-term memory consolidation

  1. Tima Zeng  Is a corresponding author
  2. Alexa Tompary
  3. Anna C Schapiro
  4. Sharon L Thompson-Schill
  1. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, United States
9 figures and 1 additional file

Figures

Procedure and stimuli for Experiments 1 and 2.

(a) Schematic illustration of the procedure for Experiments 1 and 2. The procedure of Session 1 is the same for Experiments 1 and 2 (with the exception of the number of trials). Participants …

Figure 2 with 2 supplements
Error measurements and results.

(a) Error measurements. (b) Change in error by group and memory type (the band indicates the median, the box indicates the first and third quartiles, the whiskers indicate ± 1.5 × interquartile …

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Experiment 1 error in item and gist memory at Session 1 (a) and at Session 2 (b).

* indicates p 0.05, **** indicates p < 0.0001, and ns indicates p > 0.05 by t-tests between groups and ANOVA (top left). Red dashed lines indicate chance performance for item (defined as the …

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Experiment 1 error change between Session 1 and 2 in gist memory, estimated gist, and simulated estimated gist based on a simple item-only simulation.

Item-only simulation assumed that the magnitude of error for each item memory would remain the same but the direction of error would not be systematically influenced by the gist. [We generated 1000 …

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Experiment 1 error change in reported gist, estimated gist, and simulated estimated gist from an item-only simulation.

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Bias measurement and results at each session.

(a) Bias measurement. The bias for each recalled location is (red - yellow) / green. The blue square is an example of a recalled item that is biased away from the reported center and the blue …

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Change in error by delay and memory type (the band indicates the median, the box indicates the first and third quartiles, the whiskers indicate ± 1.5 × interquartile range, and the solid points indicate outliers).

Greater values indicate an increase in error from Session 1 after delay. **** p <0.0001 by Wilcoxon signed rank tests. Dots and lines indicate participants. Figure 4—figure supplement 1 shows the …

Figure 4—figure supplement 1
Experiment 2 error in item and gist (center) memory at each session.

Red dashed lines indicate chance performance for item (defined as the average of distance between encoded item locations and center of the screen) and gist memory (defined as the distance between …

Global and local bias at each session.

(a) Global observed bias (Obs), item-only simulated bias (Sim-I), and gist simulated bias (Sim-G) at each session. Global bias uses the report center. (b) Local observed bias (Obs), item-only …

Outlier weight values at each session.

The band indicates the median, the box indicates the first and third quartiles, the whiskers indicate ± 1.5 × interquartile range. Dots and lines indicate participants.

Simulated bias controlling for error.

(a) An example of the probability of simulated locations to be generated for an encoded location given the same extent of error in gist simulation. (b) Items with large errors are more likely to …

Figure 7—source data 1

The relation between simulated error and bias.

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