Eye movements provide an index of veridical memory for temporal order.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 25993437.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0125648 and PMC identifier 4439145.
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Abstract
The present research examined whether eye movements during retrieval capture the relation between an event and its temporal attributes. In two experiments (N=76), we found converging evidence that eye movements reflected the veridicality of memory for temporal order seconds before overt memory judgments, suggesting that these movements captured indirect access to temporal information. These eye movements did not entirely depend on the amount of contextual cueing available (Experiment 1) and reflected the unique ordinal position of an event in a sequence (Experiment 2). Based on our results, we conclude that eye movements reflected the absolute temporal order of past events.
Medical subject headings
- Eye Movements
- Memory
- Temporal Lobe