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Less than 20 years ago, the lion’s share of work in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, including our own, examined neural activity during an experience (encoding time) or during memory retrieval. Using the subsequent memory effect, whereby trials were sorted by indices of memory behavior, this approached revealed was pivotal in revealing a network of brain regions where encoding activity predicted successful encoding or retrieval.

Another distinct line of work that we have spent a number of years developing focuses on the interactions between memory and perception/cognition that serve to organize our memories. One way of thinking about this question (and indeed the one that inspired our thinking on the topic) is to ask what constitutes an ‘episode’ in episodic memory? We have pursued this question using definitive assays of episodic memory, fMRI and MEG.