Figure 1.

a, Schematic of the experimental design, showing all four scenes and two exemplary trials at encoding (t1, t2) and retrieval (t1′, t2′) with two different memory outcomes. b, Illustration of the ERS analysis. ERS is the correlation between the activation pattern over voxels within a given region for a given trial at encoding and the activation pattern for the corresponding trial at retrieval (same-trial ERS, black diagonal cells). In our initial analysis, the difference in same-trial ERS for WS vs WO retrievals was assessed. In a subsequent analysis, same-trial ERS values were compared with the ERS between words that shared the same scene exemplar (same-scene ERS; gray, off-diagonal cells for example trial 2).