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Yu Jin Rah¹, Jung Han Shin^1,2, Sang Ah Lee¹

¹Seoul National University.

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Visual boundaries in scenes can organize episodic memory, even without active navigation. A simple visual boundary was sufficient to impact memory organization in the hippocampus and visual scene network.

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Neuroscience
Visual Perception

Background:

Spatial boundaries, like doorways, are known to organize episodic memory through active navigation.
Previous research indicates scene structures influence spatial representation, but their role as event boundaries without navigation is unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if visual boundaries alone, without active navigation, can function as event boundaries.
To examine the neural correlates of visual boundaries in memory organization.

Main Methods:

A non-navigational, scene-based memory task was employed.
Participants remembered object sequences within a scene containing a freestanding visual boundary.
Brain activity was monitored using neuroimaging techniques.

Main Results:

A visual boundary within the scene elicited increased activity in the cortical visual scene network and hippocampus.
Coordinated activity between these brain regions was enhanced by the visual boundary.
The presence of a visual boundary significantly influenced memory organization.

Conclusions:

Active navigation across spatial boundaries is not required to form event boundaries.
Visual representations of boundaries are sufficient to influence episodic memory organization.
The findings highlight the role of visual scene elements in structuring memory within the hippocampus.