A multivariate brain state for directing the mind's eye inward

Remembering what one had for breakfast the previous day depends in part on engaging a retrieval brain state—a whole-brain activity pattern thought to be specific to episodic remembering, including what occurred, when, and where. Using multivariate machine learning analyses of neural activity patterns, Nicole Long will present evidence supporting an alternative hypothesis: that the retrieval state instead tracks internal attention demands. Engagement of this proposed internal attention state may therefore account for behavior across cognitive processes beyond episodic memory.