"Humans can remember various types of information, including facts, dates, events and even intricate narratives."We then discovered that people don't simply recall various events from the narratives but often summarize relatively large parts of a narrative (such as episodes) in single sentences. This gave rise to an idea that a narrative is represented in memory as a tree where nodes that are closer to the root represent an abstract summary of larger episodes."
Tsodyks and his colleagues hypothesized that a tree representing a narrative is first constructed when an individual first hears or reads a story and understands it.
---As past studies suggest that individuals comprehend the same narratives differently, then the resulting trees would have unique structures."
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