Interactive narratives reveal the personalizing effect of agency on episodic memory.

Nat Commun · 2026 · PMC13402355 · PMID 42251041

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There was a significant network type x agency interaction for the Adventure story (F(2,113) = 3.27, p = 0.042, η 2 = 0.055) and the same effect that did not reach statistical significance in the Romance story (F(2,123) = 2.99, p = 0.054, η 2 = 0.046).

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