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Episodic MemoryAttentionCognitive AgingNeuroimagingHuman Performance

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Figure 1: Assessing the influence of attention on memory retrieval. Shown in (a) are the frontoparietal networks of attention and cognitive control derived from network parcellations computed from the full sample (N = 1,000) in Yeo et al. (2011). The schematic of the goal-directed memory-retrieval task used in Madore et al. (2020) shows (b) that pre-goal lapsing was measured using EEG posterior alpha power and pupil size in the last 1 s of the ITI, whereas goal-coding strength was measured using a retrieval goal- cue-locked ERP extracted from a midfrontal cluster of electrodes. In (c) the 1 s prior to the onset of the retrieval goal cue, pupil size (and posterior alpha power; not shown) significantly correlated with retrieval success, and midfrontal EEG goal-coding strength partially mediated this effect (n = 75; Madore et al., 2020). DAN = dorsal attention network; VAN = ventral attention network; CCN = cognitive control network; ITI = intertrial interval; ERP = event-related potential. Created in BioRender (Schwartz, 2025a). https:// BioRender.com/mejp1fu.

Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory

Shawn T. Schwartz, Haopei Yang, Alice M. Xue, Anthony D. Wagner

Current Directions in Psychological Science

This article reviews recent advances in understanding how attention mechanisms shape episodic memory, examining neural substrates, oscillatory rhythms, age-related precision changes, and closed-loop experimental approaches to establish causal attention-memory relationships.

June 4, 2025
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