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Here, we examined relationships between eye fixations, memory precision, and fMRI BOLD activity. At study, participants were presented with object images, each placed at a random location on a circle. At test, both studied and new images were presented. Participants were instructed to recall and signal the studied location of each image, guessing if necessary. They then indicated if the image had been studied. Simultaneous fMRI and eye-tracking data were acquired during the test phase. For correctly recognized images, trial-wise angular distances between the studied and reported locations were fitted to a two-component mixture model. On the basis of model-derived parameters, correctly recognized images were categorized as those associated with successful location retrieval (location hits) or guesses. Location hits were further divided into high- and low-precision trials. 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