BI 156 Mariam Aly: Memory, Attention, and Perception
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Attention Affects Memory Encoding and Retrieval
When I started my postdoc, I was really interested in how the way that we pay attention influences what our memory systems are representing and what they encode. And when I started this line of work, it seemed like paying attention to the left or right side of the screen or paying attention to faces versus houses didn't really seem to affect hippocampal activity at all. That's in stark contrast to how attention affects visual systems, where if you're paying attention to a face versus a house, there is extremely robust modulation of signals in visual areas. We figured that some of those null effects in the hippocampus might be because the hippocampus doesn't really care about individual objects as much as it cares about relationships
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