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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Ophthalmology

Background:

  • Eye movements are essential for visual exploration and memory.
  • Previous studies suggest a correlation between gaze fixations, hippocampal activity, and memory recall.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide direct evidence linking gaze fixations, neural activity, and memory during scene viewing.
  • To investigate the causal relationship between oculomotor and memory systems.

Main Methods:

  • Combined eye-tracking with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
  • Compared neural activity and memory performance during free viewing versus single-location fixation.

Main Results:

  • Fixating a single location reduced subsequent memory and neural activity in the ventral visual stream and hippocampus.
  • Neural similarity between memory effects and visual exploration decreased with fixation.
  • Functional connectivity among key brain regions, including the hippocampus, was reduced.

Conclusions:

  • Gaze fixations are causally related to hippocampal activity and memory binding.
  • The oculomotor and memory systems are intrinsically linked at behavioral and neural levels.
  • Individual gaze fixations may serve as fundamental units for memory processes.