@article{236,
  author = {Janice Chen and Y.C Leong and Christopher Honey and Chung Yong and Kenneth Norman and Uri Hasson},
  title = {Shared memories reveal shared structure in neural activity across individuals},
  abstract = {<p>Our lives revolve around sharing experiences and memories with others. When different people recount the same events, how similar are their underlying neural representations? Participants viewed a 50-min movie, then verbally described the events during functional MRI, producing unguided detailed descriptions lasting up to 40 min. As each person spoke, event-specific spatial patterns were reinstated in default-network, medial-temporal, and high-level visual areas. Individual event patterns were both highly discriminable from one another and similar among people, suggesting consistent spatial organization. In many high-order areas, patterns were more similar between people recalling the same event than between recall and perception, indicating systematic reshaping of percept into memory. These results reveal the existence of a common spatial organization for memories in high-level cortical areas, where encoded information is largely abstracted beyond sensory constraints, and that neural patterns during perception are altered systematically across people into shared memory representations for real-life events.</p>
},
  year = {2016},
  journal = {Nature Neuroscience},
  volume = {20},
  pages = {115-125},
  doi = {10.1038/nn.4450},
}