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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Assessing long-term memory retrieval is challenging due to reliance on overt responses.
  • Forgetting may involve difficulties in accessing memory traces rather than their complete loss.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the existence of long-term memory traces despite conscious recall failure.
  • To explore memory reactivation using eye-tracking and behavioral tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Encoding of sound-picture-location associations in two experiments.
  • Testing involved sound cues to elicit visual scanning for associated pictures on an empty screen.
  • Eye-tracking measures combined with behavioral memory reports.

Main Results:

  • Sound cues reactivated associated memories, biasing eye movements towards correct locations.
  • This memory-guided behavior occurred even without conscious memory retrieval.
  • Oculomotor behavior reflected underlying memory representations.

Conclusions:

  • Memory traces persist in long-term memory even when not consciously accessible.
  • Behavioral measures like eye-tracking can reveal 'forgotten' memories.
  • This provides a method to map internal representations of inaccessible memories.