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Mice integrate conspecific and contextual information in forming social episodic-like memories under spontaneous recognition task conditions (2024)
Journal Article
Ross, T. W., Poulter, S. L., Lever, C., & Easton, A. (in press). Mice integrate conspecific and contextual information in forming social episodic-like memories under spontaneous recognition task conditions. Scientific Reports,

The ability to remember unique past events (episodic memory) may be an evolutionarily conserved function, with accumulating evidence of episodic-(like) memory processing in rodents. In humans, it likely contributes to successful complex social networ... Read More about Mice integrate conspecific and contextual information in forming social episodic-like memories under spontaneous recognition task conditions.

Measuring episodic memory and mental time travel: Crossing the species gap (2024)
Journal Article
Collaro, E., Barton, R., Ainge, J., & Easton, A. Measuring episodic memory and mental time travel: Crossing the species gap. Manuscript submitted for publication

Mental time travel is considered as the projection of the mind into the past or future, and relates to experiential aspects of episodic memory, and episodic future thinking. Framing episodic memory and future thinking in this way causes a challenge w... Read More about Measuring episodic memory and mental time travel: Crossing the species gap.

Rats use strategies to make object choices in spontaneous object recognition tasks (2022)
Journal Article
Ross, T., & Easton, A. (2022). Rats use strategies to make object choices in spontaneous object recognition tasks. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 16973. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21537-1

Rodent spontaneous object recognition (SOR) paradigms are widely used to study the mechanisms of complex memory in many laboratories. Due to the absence of explicit reinforcement in these tasks, there is an underlying assumption that object explorato... Read More about Rats use strategies to make object choices in spontaneous object recognition tasks.

A single brief stressful event time-dependently affects object recognition memory and promotes familiarity preference in marmoset monkeys (2022)
Journal Article
Costa, C. S., Oliveira, A. W., Easton, A., & Barros, M. (2022). A single brief stressful event time-dependently affects object recognition memory and promotes familiarity preference in marmoset monkeys. Behavioural Processes, 199, Article 104645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104645

A stressful experience can enhance information storage and impair memory retrieval in the rodent novel object recognition (NOR) task. However, recent conflicting results underscore the need for further investigation. Nonhuman primates may provide a u... Read More about A single brief stressful event time-dependently affects object recognition memory and promotes familiarity preference in marmoset monkeys.

The spatial layout of doorways and environmental boundaries shape the content of event memories (2022)
Journal Article
Buckley, M. G., Myles, L. A., Easton, A., & McGregor, A. (2022). The spatial layout of doorways and environmental boundaries shape the content of event memories. Cognition, 225, Article 105091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105091

Physical boundaries in our environment have been observed to define separate events in episodic memory. To date, however, there is little evidence that the spatial properties of boundaries exert any control over event memories. To examine this possib... Read More about The spatial layout of doorways and environmental boundaries shape the content of event memories.

The Hippocampal Horizon: Constructing and Segmenting Experience for Episodic Memory (2021)
Journal Article
Ross, T., & Easton, A. (2022). The Hippocampal Horizon: Constructing and Segmenting Experience for Episodic Memory. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 132, 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.11.038

How do we recollect specific events that have occurred during continuous ongoing experience? There is converging evidence from non-human animals that spatially modulated cellular activity of the hippocampal formation supports the construction of ongo... Read More about The Hippocampal Horizon: Constructing and Segmenting Experience for Episodic Memory.

Perirhinal cortex and the recognition of relative familiarity (2021)
Journal Article
Ameen-Ali, K. E., Sivakumaran, M. H., Eacott, M. J., O'Connor, A. R., Ainge, J. A., & Easton, A. (2021). Perirhinal cortex and the recognition of relative familiarity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 182, Article 107439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107439

Spontaneous object recognition (SOR) is a widely used task of recognition memory in rodents which relies on their propensity to explore novel (or relatively novel) objects. Network models typically define perirhinal cortex as a region required for re... Read More about Perirhinal cortex and the recognition of relative familiarity.

Acetylcholine and Spontaneous Recognition Memory in Rodents and Primates (2020)
Book Chapter
Easton, A., Barros, M., & Lever, C. (2020). Acetylcholine and Spontaneous Recognition Memory in Rodents and Primates. In M. Shoaib, & T. Wallace (Eds.), Behavioral pharmacology of the cholinergic system (29-45). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2020_132

Whilst acetylcholine has long been linked to memory, there have been significant questions about its specific role. In particular, the effects of cholinergic manipulations in primates and rodents has often been at odds. Here, we review the work in pr... Read More about Acetylcholine and Spontaneous Recognition Memory in Rodents and Primates.

Impaired episodic simulation in a patient with visual memory deficit amnesia (2020)
Journal Article
Easton, A., Cockcroft, J. P., Ameen-Ali, K. E., & Eacott, M. J. (2020). Impaired episodic simulation in a patient with visual memory deficit amnesia. Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 4, https://doi.org/10.1177/2398212820954384

For the first time, we assess episodic simulation in a patient with visual memory deficit amnesia, following damage to visual association cortices. Compared to control participants, the patient with visual memory deficit amnesia shows severely restri... Read More about Impaired episodic simulation in a patient with visual memory deficit amnesia.