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SUBMITTER: Clewett D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7421896 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200811 1
Everyday life unfolds continuously, yet we tend to remember past experiences as discrete event sequences or episodes. Although this phenomenon has been well documented, the neuromechanisms that support the transformation of continuous experience into distinct and memorable episodes remain unknown. Here, we show that changes in context, or event boundaries, elicit a burst of autonomic arousal, as indexed by pupil dilation. Event boundaries also lead to the segmentation of adjacent episodes in lat ...[more]