The role of working memory in encoding the temporal structure of events in episodic memory: Evidence from a dual-task paradigm.
Naturalistic events are represented in episodic memory as sequences of experience units (i.e., segments of prior experience) that are separated by temporal discontinuities, so that events are temporally compressed during memory replay. In the current study, we aimed to shed light on the interplay be...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 1102 - 1116 |
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May2026
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