AIP Sperimentale 2025, 31° Congresso annuale

Session

Neural signatures of complex and real-life memories

Sep 11, 2025, 11:00 AM

Conveners

Neural signatures of complex and real-life memories

• Annalisa Tosoni (Dipartimento di Psicologi, Università di Chieti-Pescara)
• Carlo Sestieri (G. d'Annunzio)

1016. Introduzione

9/11/25, 11:00 AM

818. Neural signatures of complex and real-life memories

Dr Annalisa Tosoni (Dipartimento di Psicologi, Università di Chieti-Pescara)

9/11/25, 11:00 AM

Memory

Abstract complessivo di un simposio

Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience increasingly focus on how memory functions in response to rich, temporally extended experiences that approximate the complexity and continuity of everyday life. This symposium brings together recent EEG and fMRI studies investigating the neural correlates of episodic and semantic memory using ecologically grounded paradigms and stimuli, including...

828. Aging does not impair neural sensitivity to extrafoveal contextual violations

Elena Allegretti (Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome)

9/11/25, 11:05 AM

Memory

Talk in simposio

Objects semantically inconsistent with their surrounding scene typically attract attention (i.e., looked at earlier and for longer) and elicit a fronto-central N400 response, reflecting the cognitive effort to resolve contextual mismatches. Yet, it remains unresolved how much semantic information can be extracted before direct fixation, and whether similar extrafoveal processing mechanisms are...

877. Altered theta and alpha oscillations during autobiographical memory retrieval in an individual with highly superior autobiographical memory

Prof. Valerio Santangelo (Università di Perugia)

9/11/25, 11:22 AM

Memory

Talk in simposio

Highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) is a rare condition characterized by an extraordinary ability to recall autobiographical information with remarkable accuracy and detail. While previous studies have begun to explore the neural correlates of HSAM, the role of brain oscillations in this phenomenon remains largely unexplored. In this study, we examined an individual with HSAM and...

822. Shared spectral fingerprints of temporal memory precision and representation of the temporal structure of complex narratives

Dr Matteo Frisoni (Università di Bologna)

9/11/25, 11:39 AM

Memory

Talk in simposio

The ability to organize events in time is a hallmark of episodic memory. While fMRI studies have linked the entorhinal-hippocampal network to temporal judgments and event structure representation, less is known about the broader neural mechanisms supporting these abilities. This EEG study investigated whether temporal memory precision and temporal representation of event structure are related,...

862. Specialization of Retrieval-Related Activity for Different Memory Dimensions

Federica Procida (Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Imaging e Scienze Cliniche, Università 'G.d'Annunzio' di Chieti-Pescara)

9/11/25, 11:56 AM

Memory

Talk in simposio

The mnemonic representation of complex events is multidimensional. Although it has been shown that the recollection of complex events jointly recruits the Default Mode Network (DMN) and the FrontoParietal Control Network (FPCN), the extent to which activity within these networks varies according to specific memory dimensions (e.g., what, where, when) remains underexplored. To address this, the...

941. Neural correlates of the semantization process: graph-like construction of social knowledge from TV series encoding

Federica Santacroce (G. d'Annunzio University)

9/11/25, 12:13 PM

Memory

Talk in simposio

Traditional accounts describe semantic memory as static and crystallized, often overlooking its episodic origins. Recent theories suggest that conceptual knowledge may emerge from low-dimensional, Cartesian-like representational space (Bellmund, 2018), potentially supported by medial parietal regions (Bottini&Doeller, 2020). However, empirical evidence, especially with high-dimensional,...