Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Disruption of anterior temporal lobe reduces distortions in memory from category knowledge Memory retrieval does not provide a perfect recapitulation of past events, but instead an imperfect reconstruction of event-specific details and general knowledge. However, it remains unclear whether this reconstruction relies on mixtures of signals from different memory systems, including one supporting general knowledge. Here, we investigate whether the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) distorts new memories due to prior category knowledge. In this experiment (N=36), participants encoded and retrieved image-location associations. Most images locations were clustered according to their category, but some were in random locations. With this protocol, we previously demonstrated that randomly located images were retrieved closer to their category cluster relative to their encoded locations, suggesting an influence of category knowledge. We combined this procedure with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) delivered to the left ATL before retrieval. We separately examined event-specific details (error) and category knowledge (bias) to identify distinct signals attributable to different memory systems. We found that TMS to ATL attenuated bias in location memory, but only for atypical category members. The magnitude of error was not impacted, suggesting that a memorys fidelity can be decoupled from its distortion by category knowledge. This raises the intriguing possibility that retrieval is jointly supported by separable memory systems.
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The categories of this paper are: cognition
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic
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The categories of this paper are: genomics
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The categories of this paper are: cancer
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The categories of this paper are: biology
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The categories of this paper are: immunology
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The categories of this paper are: bioengineering
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The categories of this paper are: plant
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The categories of this paper are: biophysics
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The categories of this paper are: animal
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The categories of this paper are: biochemistry
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The categories of this paper are: scientific
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The categories of this paper are: zoology
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The categories of this paper are: physiology
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The categories of this paper are: microbiology
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The categories of this paper are: systems