Eye movements provide an index of veridical memory for temporal order.
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SUBMITTER: Pathman T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4439145 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Eye movements provide an index of veridical memory for temporal order.
Pathman Thanujeni T Ghetti Simona S
PloS one 20150520 5
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 refl ...[more]
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