What are memory-perception interactions for? Implications for action

Heurley, LoÃ ̄c P.; Ferrier, Laurent P.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01553

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“…Current evidence indicates that perception and memory interact to direct and control driving attentional and cognitive processes actions (for a review, Heurley and Ferrier, 2015 ). A salient stimulus is more prone to be integrated into memory traces than non-salient stimuli.…”

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Dopamine activity on the perceptual salience for recognition memory

Osorio-Gómez

Guzmán-Ramos

Bermúdez‐Rattoni

2022

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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To survive, animals must recognize relevant stimuli and distinguish them from inconspicuous information. Usually, the properties of the stimuli, such as intensity, duration, frequency, and novelty, among others, determine the salience of the stimulus. However, previously learned experiences also facilitate the perception and processing of information to establish their salience. Here, we propose “perceptual salience” to define how memory mediates the integration of inconspicuous stimuli into a relevant memory trace without apparently altering the recognition of the physical attributes or valence, enabling the detection of stimuli changes in future encounters. The sense of familiarity is essential for successful recognition memory; in general, familiarization allows the transition of labeling a stimulus from the novel (salient) to the familiar (non-salient). The novel object recognition (NOR) and object location recognition (OLRM) memory paradigms represent experimental models of recognition memory that allow us to study the neurobiological mechanisms involved in episodic memory. The catecholaminergic system has been of vital interest due to its role in several aspects of recognition memory. This review will discuss the evidence that indicates changes in dopaminergic activity during exposure to novel objects or places, promoting the consolidation and persistence of memory. We will discuss the relationship between dopaminergic activity and perceptual salience of stimuli enabling learning and consolidation processes necessary for the novel-familiar transition. Finally, we will describe the effect of dopaminergic deregulation observed in some pathologies and its impact on recognition memory.

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Dopamine activity on the perceptual salience for recognition memory

Osorio-Gómez

Guzmán-Ramos

Bermúdez‐Rattoni

2022

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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“…For several decades, a growing body of works has been exploring the relationships between visual perception and action (Bridgeman & Tseng, 2011;Creem-Regehr & Kunz, 2010;Gibson, 1979;Heurley & Ferrier, 2015;Proffitt & Linkenauger, 2013). In this framework, some authors have specifically focused on the importance of size perception for appropriate interactions with the environment.…”

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Integration of Action and Size Perception Through Practice

2017

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Size perception is known to influence our usual interactions with environment. Numerous studies highlighted that during the visual presentation of an object, the properties of manual actions vary as a function of this object's size. In order to better understand the dynamic variations of relationships between size perception and action, we used an experimental paradigm consisting in two phases. During a previous implicit learning phase, a manual response (right or left) was specifically associated with the appearance of a large or small stimulus. During further test phase, participants were required to prepare a response while discriminating the color of a stimulus (GO/No GO task). We observed that the response execution was faster when the size of the stimulus was congruent with the size that had been associated to this response (during implicit learning phase). These results suggest that when a response usually co-occurs with visual stimuli characterized by a specific size pattern, the response and the size pattern become integrated. Any subsequent preparation and execution of this action are therefore influenced by the reactivation of this visual pattern. This result brings out new insights on how sensorimotor interactions may modulate the ability to anticipate perceptive size variations in the environment.

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