memovocab
@memovocab.bsky.social
memory, cognition, terminology, ontology, taxonomy
Thesaurus of human memory:
https://loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/
Blog:
https://blogdememovocab.fr
For information in French:
@memovocabfr.bsky.social
Thesaurus of human memory:
https://loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/
Blog:
https://blogdememovocab.fr
For information in French:
@memovocabfr.bsky.social
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memovocab
@memovocab.bsky.social
· May 12
CogMemo: a standardized, structured and formalized terminological r...
1. Introduction According to the philosopher of science Carl Hempel [1966: 85], “[s]cientific statements are typically formulated in special terms [...]. If those terms are to serve their purpose, ...
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My paper "CogMemo: a standardized, structured and formalized terminological repository on human memory" describing the Thesaurus of Human memory [ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/ ] is out in Lexis: A journal of English Lexicology. Open access. journals.openedition.org/lexis/8907
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Do people remember where things are relative to their body (e.g. my left side) or relative to the environment (the North/uphill side)? The answer is both at once, according to my new paper now out in Psychological Science! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Do people remember where things are relative to their body (e.g. my left side) or relative to the environment (the North/uphill side)? The answer is both at once, according to my new paper now out in Psychological Science! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
[Empirical study] Two errorful learning strategies – pretesting [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... and retrieval practice [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... – improved memory across age groups.
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Testing before learning: Exploring the robustness of the pretesting effect - Memory & Cognition
Retrieval practice, or taking tests after studying, is a highly effective strategy to enhance learning. Furthermore, pretesting, which involves attempting and failing to guess unknown information befo...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
[Empirical study] Two errorful learning strategies – pretesting [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... and retrieval practice [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... – improved memory across age groups.
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
[Empirical study] Deep distortions — in which people remember multiple incompatible realities as true, in violation of basic logic — can occur even with images of celebrity faces or physical locations. Open access.
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Deep distortions in faces and places - Memory & Cognition
Deep distortions occur when a person remembers multiple incompatible reality states as true, producing logical impossibilities. Those impossibilities include violations of basic logical principles suc...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
[Empirical study] Deep distortions — in which people remember multiple incompatible realities as true, in violation of basic logic — can occur even with images of celebrity faces or physical locations. Open access.
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
[Review] "memory reproduction and reconstruction may coexist, with the relative contribution of each depending on factors such as prior knowledge, time, and task demands".
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Adaptive episodic memory: How multiple memory representations drive behaviour in humans and non-humans | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
Episodic memory is a declarative long-term memory of a specific past experience. As such, it is multifaceted, encompassing both the objective and subjective components of that experience. These compon...
journals.physiology.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 AM
[Review] "memory reproduction and reconstruction may coexist, with the relative contribution of each depending on factors such as prior knowledge, time, and task demands".
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
[Review] Preservationism in memory: Dead or alive? Open access.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Preservationism in Memory
Preservationism in the philosophy of memory is dead, according to many. This opinion is not ill-founded. It appears to be justified both by common sense and by empirical psychology. But in what follo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
[Review] Preservationism in memory: Dead or alive? Open access.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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How do we recall the memory of events that may happen repeatedly, such as our own birthday? Today at The Memory Palace, Katja Crone analyzes different types of memory, including what she terms "generic" memory, when it comes to frequent events.
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/how-we-rec...
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/how-we-rec...
How We Recall Recurring Events
Katja Crone (TU Dortmund)
thememorypalacephil.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
How do we recall the memory of events that may happen repeatedly, such as our own birthday? Today at The Memory Palace, Katja Crone analyzes different types of memory, including what she terms "generic" memory, when it comes to frequent events.
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/how-we-rec...
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/how-we-rec...
[Review] "the proposed neural state space for episodic memories allows for dynamic changes in memory expression over time, which most theories of systems consolidation are not able to explain." Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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November 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
[Review] "the proposed neural state space for episodic memories allows for dynamic changes in memory expression over time, which most theories of systems consolidation are not able to explain." Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
[Review] "this review provides a multimodal perspective on the cognitive neuroscience mechanisms underlying episodic memory formation." Open access.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Episodic memory neural mechanisms: patterns, connectivity, and developmental dynamics
Episodic memory enables individuals to encode, store, and retrieve personally experienced events in their spatiotemporal contexts. This review synthes…
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November 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
[Review] "this review provides a multimodal perspective on the cognitive neuroscience mechanisms underlying episodic memory formation." Open access.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
[Empirical study] Un-silencing the silent engram [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ]
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
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Molecular mechanisms mediating engram ensemble retrievability state in mice
The information stored in a silent engram cannot be accessed by normal sensory retrieval
cues but can be accessed in the short term by direct optogenetic reactivation. Silent
engrams can be un-silence...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
[Empirical study] Un-silencing the silent engram [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ]
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
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Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
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October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
[Review] Three philosophical problems to solve in order to transform our understanding of episodic memory in non-human animals. Open access.
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compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
[Review] Three philosophical problems to solve in order to transform our understanding of episodic memory in non-human animals. Open access.
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
[Review] "Large language models offer scalable tools for detecting, clarifying, and generating psychological constructs within a shared semantic space". Open access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Escaping the Jingle-Jangle Jungle: Increasing Conceptual Clarity in Psychology Using Large Language Models - Dirk U. Wulff, Rui Mata, 2025
Psychology has long struggled with conceptual redundancy, particularly in the form of “jingle-jangle fallacies,” in which different constructs share the same la...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM
[Review] "Large language models offer scalable tools for detecting, clarifying, and generating psychological constructs within a shared semantic space". Open access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Predictive coding has guided neuroscience for years but it does not account for the neuronal data. We review how patterns of feedback during spatial and temporal predictions are better captured by a family of opposing theories, collectively termed BELIEF.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Predictive coding has guided neuroscience for years but it does not account for the neuronal data. We review how patterns of feedback during spatial and temporal predictions are better captured by a family of opposing theories, collectively termed BELIEF.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
[Empirical study] "this study found that although LLMs exhibit greater consistency than human jurors and hold potential for reducing variability in legal decision making, they are not free from bias." psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 AM
[Empirical study] "this study found that although LLMs exhibit greater consistency than human jurors and hold potential for reducing variability in legal decision making, they are not free from bias." psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Motivation as Neural Context for Adaptive Learning and Memory Formation
Our memories shape our perception of the world and guide adaptive behavior. Rather than a veridical record of experiences, memory is selective. An accumulating body of work suggests that motivational ...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Le troisième colloque interdisciplinaire du GDR Mémoire, à Cabourg, a été un vrai succès ! Un grand merci au comité d’organisation, aux intervenant·e·s et participant·e·s pour la richesse des échanges et l’énergie partagée ! Venez revivre et partager vos souvenirs du colloque en réponse à ce post !
October 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Le troisième colloque interdisciplinaire du GDR Mémoire, à Cabourg, a été un vrai succès ! Un grand merci au comité d’organisation, aux intervenant·e·s et participant·e·s pour la richesse des échanges et l’énergie partagée ! Venez revivre et partager vos souvenirs du colloque en réponse à ce post !
On the way to Cabourg to attend the third interdisciplinary conference of the GDR Mémoire!
October 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
On the way to Cabourg to attend the third interdisciplinary conference of the GDR Mémoire!
[Replication] The misinformation effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ]: Why your memories can be hacked.
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[Replication] The misinformation effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ]: Why your memories can be hacked.
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d....
October 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM
[Replication] The misinformation effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ]: Why your memories can be hacked.
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d....
[Replication] The misinformation effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ]: Why your memories can be hacked.
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[Review] Statistical learning: "lack of robust phenomena, issues with construct validity, and issues with establishing causality." Open access.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research - npj Science of Learning
npj Science of Learning - Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research
www.nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
[Review] Statistical learning: "lack of robust phenomena, issues with construct validity, and issues with establishing causality." Open access.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
[Review] The role of mnemonic silence (memories unsaid) in collective forgetting.
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Collective forgetting? Mnemonic silence and its nuanced role in shaping collective remembering
Collective memories are the result of a nuanced interplay between what is collectively remembered and forgotten. Indeed, much like individual memory, …
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September 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
[Review] The role of mnemonic silence (memories unsaid) in collective forgetting.
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[Taxonomy] Three forms of aphantasia [❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/...: Neurological, psychogenic, and congenital. Open access.
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Mapping the Imageless Mind: Towards a Taxonomy of Aphantasia
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September 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
[Taxonomy] Three forms of aphantasia [❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/...: Neurological, psychogenic, and congenital. Open access.
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[History of memory] Vladimir M. Bekhterev described a case of amnesia due to bilateral hippocampal lesions in 1899, five decades before the patient HM. Open access.
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BEKHTEREV’S CASE: AMNESIA DUE TO BI-HIPPOCAMPAL DAMAGE 50 YEARS BEFORE HM
The association between the hippocampus and memory has been largely shaped by the landmark case of patient HM in the mid-20th century. However, this m…
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September 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
[History of memory] Vladimir M. Bekhterev described a case of amnesia due to bilateral hippocampal lesions in 1899, five decades before the patient HM. Open access.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
[Empirical study] Attention, pupillometry, and the production effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] in memory. Open access.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The pupillometric production effect: Evidence for enhanced processing preceding, during, and following production
The production effect refers to superior memory performance for words read aloud than for those read silently. This finding has usually been attribute…
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September 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
[Empirical study] Attention, pupillometry, and the production effect [ ❓ loterre.istex.fr/P66/en/page/... ] in memory. Open access.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interesting use of the DRM paradigm to test Lakoff & Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory.
1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2/ link.springer.com/article/10.3...
3/ brill.com/view/journal...
1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2/ link.springer.com/article/10.3...
3/ brill.com/view/journal...
Something false about conceptual metaphors
Although Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory has been influential across many disciplines, little research has tested the psychological reality of conceptual metaphors (CMs) using estab...
www.tandfonline.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Interesting use of the DRM paradigm to test Lakoff & Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory.
1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2/ link.springer.com/article/10.3...
3/ brill.com/view/journal...
1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2/ link.springer.com/article/10.3...
3/ brill.com/view/journal...
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Very excited to announce my student Andreas Arslan's first paper, "Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events" in Cognition!
Out now open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Andreas isn't on bsky, but he very kindly wrote a summary thread for me to share.
🧵 (1/24)
Out now open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Andreas isn't on bsky, but he very kindly wrote a summary thread for me to share.
🧵 (1/24)
Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events
“Episodes” in memory are formed by the experience of dynamic events that unfold over time. However, just because a series of events unfold sequentiall…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Very excited to announce my student Andreas Arslan's first paper, "Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events" in Cognition!
Out now open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Andreas isn't on bsky, but he very kindly wrote a summary thread for me to share.
🧵 (1/24)
Out now open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Andreas isn't on bsky, but he very kindly wrote a summary thread for me to share.
🧵 (1/24)