Prediction error parameters for visuospatial interference: Minimal prediction errors leave positive declarative memory intact following visuospatial word search interference

Gura, Hannah; Davidson, Allison; Gotthard, Gretchen Hanson

doi:10.1016/j.lmot.2020.101674

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“…Prediction errors then weaken the associations between the originally learnt items, prompting reconsolidation and enabling the new information to be updated into the existing memory representation (Exton-McGuinness et al, 2015; Sinclair & Barense, 2019). This effect appears contingent on the magnitude of the prediction error, with minimal prediction errors seeming insufficient to prompt reconsolidation and updating of the new, error-inducing information into memory (Gura et al, 2020). In the present study, larger N400 amplitudes may have prompted memory reconsolidation for low IAF individuals, where the unpredictable information was updated into the existing memory trace.…”

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How predictability and individual alpha frequency shape memory: insights from an event-related potential investigation

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Prediction and memory are strongly intertwined, with predictions relying on memory retrieval, whilst also influencing memory encoding. However, it is unclear how prediction errors during learning, as measured by the N400 event-related potential (ERP), influence explicit memory performance, and how individual neural factors may modulate this relationship. The current study sought to investigate the effect of prediction and individual neural variability on memory processing, whilst exploring the N400 as a prediction error signal in a context extending beyond language. Participants (N = 48, females = 33) completed a study-test paradigm where they first viewed predictable and unpredictable four-item ′ABCD′ sequences of outdoor scene images, whilst their brain activity was recorded using electroencephalography (EEG). Subsequently, their memory for the images was tested, and N400 patterns during learning were compared with memory outcomes. Strikingly, greater N400 amplitudes during learning were associated with enhanced memory at test for individuals with low versus high individual alpha frequencies (IAFs). This indicates that IAF may influence stimulus precision weightings and the extent to which prediction errors drive memory encoding. Memory was also strongest for predictable images in the ′B′ position, suggesting that when processing longer sequences, the brain may prioritise the data deemed most informative for predictive model updating. Ultimately, the results provide novel insight into the effect of prediction on memory, by highlighting the role of inter-subject variability, whilst shedding light on the accumulation of predictions across sequences.

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