title: Eye movements provide an index of veridical memory for temporal order.
abstract: The present research examined whether eye movements during retrieval capture the relation between an event and its temporal attributes. In two experiments (N=76), we found converging evidence that eye movements reflected the veridicality of memory for temporal order seconds before overt memory judgments, suggesting that these movements captured indirect access to temporal information. These eye movements did not entirely depend on the amount of contextual cueing available (Experiment 1) and reflected the unique ordinal position of an event in a sequence (Experiment 2). Based on our results, we conclude that eye movements reflected the absolute temporal order of past events.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America.
authors.forename: Thanujeni
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pathman
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghetti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult