Fig. 3
From: Changing temporal context in human temporal lobe promotes memory of distinct episodes

Differences between tasks, according to behavioral patterns of retrieval in free recall. For each free recall participant, we quantified the degree to which recalled items tended to be linked across time. For each participant, we computed a temporal factor by first assigning to each recall transition a number representing the degree to which each transition was temporally linked or unlinked. The temporal factor was defined as the average value for all transitions. We divided free recall participants into terciles according to their temporal factor, and compared the relation between neural drift rate and memory performance during the paired associates task to this relation in free recall independently for the upper and lower terciles. Error bars represent SEM across 28 paired associates participants, and 16 free recall participants in each group. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01, t-test