From the noisy information bombarding our senses, our brains must construct percepts that
are veridical–reflecting the true state of the world–and informative–conveying what we did …

Natural language reflects our private lives and identities, making its privacy concerns as
broad as those of real life. Language models lack the ability to understand the context and …

Understanding the role of prior knowledge in human learning is essential for predicting,
improving, and explaining competence acquisition. However, the size and breadth of this …

Although every life event is unique, there are considerable commonalities across events.
However, little is known about whether or how the brain flexibly represents information about …

It is often hypothesized that prior knowledge strongly predicts learning performance. It can
affect learning positively mediated through some processes and negatively mediated …

Memory helps guide behavior, but which experiences from the past are prioritized? Classic
models of learning posit that events associated with unpredictable outcomes as well as …

Recent human behavioral and neuroimaging results suggest that people are selective in
when they encode and retrieve episodic memories. To explain these findings, we trained a …

A rich body of studies in the human and non-human literature has examined the question
how novelty influences memory. For a variety of different stimuli, ranging from simple objects …

Novel and unexpected stimuli are often prioritised in memory, given their inherent salience.
Nevertheless, not all forms of novelty show such an enhancement effect. Here, we discuss …

Abstract The influence of Prediction Errors (PEs) on episodic memory has generated
growing empirical and theoretical interest. This review explores how the relationship …