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Agency personalizes episodic memories

2024-12-05

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<p>Humans are agents: our choices actively shape the trajectory of events in our lives. These choices rely on personal knowledge and preferences, but what are the consequences for later memory? We studied how people’s memory for a naturalistic sequence of events is altered when their choices control the future. Participants read “choose-your-own-adventure” stories with full, partial, or no control over future even...

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Literature Corpus work: e65a97c1-b859-5116-8d3c-2e132b215f69
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/7evwj

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