Our new preprint showing that eye movements can support memory retrieval by reinstating or “pattern completing” encoded representations from partial memory cues during mnemonic discrimination. Continue for more details.

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We computed the similarity between gaze patterns during encoding and retrieval as an index of mnemonic reinstatement. In this case, retrieval consists of visualization while “looking at nothing” following the brief presentation of a partially-occluded image cue.