Hippocampal reconfiguration of events in mnemonic networks
Collin, S.; Milivojevic, B.; Doeller, C.
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It is widely assumed that episodic memories are not stored in isolation but rather in dynamic event networks. However, the mechanisms of the underlying dynamic of these representations, in particular how such networks are updated, remain elusive. In this study, we investigated the reconfiguration of events into event networks in the hippocampus by presenting new events that could update either one of two competing narratives. During the first session, participants viewed four animated movies, each representing a distinct narrative; two distinct narratives from the Jones family and two distinct narratives from the Smith family. During the second session, we re-exposed participants to snapshots of these narratives along with snapshots of new events from one of the two families, allowing updating of the acquired event networks of that family. Our findings show that the hippocampus integrated new events that relate to the old family, and then integrated these new events with the corresponding old events. Furthermore, hippocampal representations of the events within a narrative became better integrated after updating. Our results shed new light on the neural mechanisms underlying flexible mnemonic updating with realistic events and further advance our understanding of the structured reconfiguration of event networks in memory.
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