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Empowering episodic memory through a model-based egocentric navigational training

2023

BIAL Foundation Archive
- BIAL Grants
  - 2018 Grants
    - 336 - Research-inspired cognitive empowerment: Modulating Episodic Memory through Egocentric Navigational Training (MEMENT)
      - Empowering episodic memory through a model-based egocentric navigational training

Reference code:	PT/FB
Entity holding:	BIAL Foundation
Location:	S. Mamede do Coronado
Title:	BIAL Foundation Archive
Start date:	1994
History:	The BIAL Foundation was created in 1994 by Laboratórios BIAL in conjunction with the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities. BIAL’s Foundation mission is to foster the scientific study of Man from both the physical and spiritual perspectives. Along the years the BIAL Foundation has developed an important relationship with the scientific community, first in Portugal and after worldwide. Today it is an institution of reference which aims to stimulate new researches that may help people, promote more health and contribute to new milestones to gain access to knowledge. Among its activities the BIAL Foundation manages the BIAL Award, created in 1984, one of the most important awards in the Health field in Europe. The BIAL Award rewards both the basic and the clinical research distinguishing works of major impact in medical research. The BIAL Foundation also assigns Scientific Research Scholarships for the study of neurophysiological and mental health in people, arousing the interest of researchers in the areas of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology. To date the BIAL Foundation has supported 461 projects, more than 1000 researchers, with research groups in twenty-seven countries, resulting, until April 2013, in about 600 full papers, out of which 172 published in indexed international journals with an average impact factor of 3.6 and a substantial number of citations (1665). Since 1996 the BIAL Foundation organizes the Symposia entitled "Behind and Beyond the Brain", a Forum that gathers well renowned neurosciences speakers and the BIAL Foundation Fellows which are spread around the world. Classified as an institution of public utility, the BIAL Foundation includes among its patrons the Portuguese President, the Portuguese Universities Rectors' Council and the Portuguese Medical Association.
URL:	http://www.bial.com/pt/
Accessibility:	By permission

Reference code:	PT/FB/BL
Entity holding:	BIAL Foundation
Title:	BIAL Grants
Start date:	1994
History:	In 1994 the BIAL Foundation launched a programme of science research grants with the aim of encouraging the research into Man’s physical and mental processes, namely in fields still largely unexplored but which warrant further scientific analysis, as Psychophysiology and Parapsychology. Since its launch, applications to the BIAL grants have been increasing. Up to now 461 projects have been supported, involving more than 1000 researchers from 27 countries. The approved applications have benefited from grants in amounts comprised between €5,000 and €50, 000. The amount to be granted is fixed by the Scientific board according to the needs of each project. The supported projects have originated, until April 2013, in about 600 full papers, 172 out of which were published in indexed international journals with an average impact factor of 3.6 and a substantial number of citations (1665). Among the BIAL Foundation fellows is worth highlighting the presence of scientists from prestigious universities from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Russia, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, and many others. The BIAL grants are promoted biannually.

Reference code:	PT/FB/BL-2018
Location:	BF-GMS
Title:	2018 Grants
Start date:	2019-01

Reference code:	PT/FB/BL-2018-336
Location:	BF-GMS
Title:	336 - Research-inspired cognitive empowerment: Modulating Episodic Memory through Egocentric Navigational Training (MEMENT)
Duration:	2019-09 - 2023-04
Researcher(s):	Giorgia Committeri, Carlo Sestieri, Matteo Frisoni, Agustina Fragueiro, Annalisa Tosoni
Institution(s):	Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical sciences, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, University G. d' Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara (Italy)
Contents:	Contents: Application form Correspondence Resarch Funding Agreement Progress report Final report Articles
Language:	eng
Author:	Committeri, G.
Secondary author(s):	Sestieri, C., Frisoni, M., Fragueiro, A., Tosoni, A.
Number of reproductions:	1
Keywords:	Empowerment / Episodic memory / Egocentric navigation / Path integration / Psychophysiology

Reference code:	PT/FB/BL-2018-336.06
Location:	BF-GMS
Title:	Empowering episodic memory through a model-based egocentric navigational training
Publication year:	2023
URL:	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-022-01777-6
Abstract/Results:	ABSTRACT: Recent works have proposed that spatial mechanisms in the hippocampal-entorhinal system might have originally developed to represent distances and positions in the physical space and successively evolved to represent experience and memory in the mental space (Bellmund et al. 2018; Bottini and Doeller 2020). Within this phylogenetic continuity hypothesis (Buzsáki and Moser 2013), mechanisms supporting episodic and semantic memory would have evolved from egocentric and allocentric spatial navigation mechanisms, respectively. Recent studies have described a specific relationship between human performance in egocentric navigation and episodic memory (Committeri et al. 2020; Fragueiro et al. 2021), representing the first behavioral support to this hypothesis. Here, we tested the causal relationship among egocentric navigation and both episodic and semantic components of declarative memory. We conducted two experiments on healthy young adults: in the first experiment, participants were submitted to a navigational training based on path integration, while in the second experiment, participants completed a control training based on visual-perceptual learning. Performance in a set of memory tasks assessing episodic, semantic and short-term memory was compared among the pre- vs. post-training sessions. The results indicated a significant improvement of the episodic memory but not of the semantic or the short-term memory performance following the navigational training. In addition, no modulations of performance across the three memory tasks were observed following the control perceptual training. Our findings provide brand-new evidence of a potential causal association between mechanisms of egocentric navigation and episodic memory, thereby further supporting the phylogenetic continuity hypothesis between navigation and memory mechanisms as well as offering new insights about possible clinical applications of navigational trainings for memory functions/dysfunctions.
Accessibility:	Document exists in file
Language:	eng
Author:	Fragueiro, A.
Secondary author(s):	Tosoni, A., Di Matteo, R., Committeri, G.
Document type:	Article
Number of reproductions:	1
Reference:	Fragueiro, A., Tosoni, A., Di Matteo, R., & Committeri, G. (2023). Empowering episodic memory through a model-based egocentric navigational training. Psychological Research, 87(6), 1743–1752. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01777-6
2-year Impact Factor:	2.2\|2023
Times cited:	1\|2025-02-18
Indexed document:	Yes
Quartile:	Q2
Keywords:	Spatial navigation / Declarative memory / Episodic memory / Path integration / Semantic memory
Empowering episodic memory through a model-based egocentric navigational training