However, the AtoM model cannot account for the encoding-retrieval flip without additional assumptions. One of these additional assumptions was proposed by Cabeza (2008) who proposed that bottom-up capture during retrieval typically reflect incoming memories and it is therefore associated with retrieval success, whereas bottom-up capture during encoding—when the information to be encoded is constant—may reflect distractions and it is therefore associated with encoding failure. It has been argued that the VPC regions associated with retrieval success [47] and with encoding failure [20] are more posterior than the TPJ region associated with bottom-up attention to perceptual stimuli [48]. However in the present study both TPJ and VPC regions showed exactly the same pattern (Figure 3).
