Family lexicon: Using language models to encode memories of personally familiar and famous people and places in the brain

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 19; no. 11; p. e0291099
• Main Authors: Bruera, Andrea, Poesio, Massimo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 22.11.2024; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Brain; Brain - physiology; Coding; EEG; Electrodes; Electroencephalography; Evoked Potentials - physiology; Famous Persons; Female; Humans; Information processing; Knowledge; Language; Large language models; Linguistics; Male; Memory; Memory - physiology; Memory, Episodic; Names; Natural language; Neurosciences; Personality traits; Questionnaires; Recognition, Psychology - physiology; Representations; Semantics; Surveys and Questionnaires; Windows (intervals); Young Adult; United Kingdom

Knowledge about personally familiar people and places is extremely rich and varied, involving pieces of semantic information connected in unpredictable ways through past autobiographical memories. In this work, we investigate whether we can capture brain processing of personally familiar people and...