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. 2020 Jun 23;30(11):5972–5987. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa172

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Example trials. Participants saw a cue instructing them to close their eyes, and they then waited for an auditory cue which followed a jittered duration (jagged line). Upper panel: they heard a two-word cue relating to a specific AM—this example concerned an Easter egg hunt. They then had 10 s to recall the AM in as vivid and detailed a manner as possible. At the end of each trial, participants heard a beep alerting them to open their eyes and rate the success of the retrieval (1 = engaged fully for the entire trial; 2 = partly engaged during the trial; 3 = did not engage at all during the trial). Lower panel: the counting baseline trials had the same timing, but instead of recollecting an AM, participants had to mentally count in steps of either 3’s, 7’s, or 9’s.