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The Function of the Hippocampus in Bridging Functional and Temporal Discontiguity. Neural Plast 2020; 2020:1049721. [PMID: 33204246 PMCID: PMC7666620 DOI: 10.1155/2020/1049721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Revised: 09/04/2020] [Accepted: 10/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Theoretical assessment of the function of the hippocampus has suggested that given certain physiological constraints at both the neuronal and cortical level, the hippocampus is best suited to associate discontiguous items that occur in different temporal or spatial positions. Conceptually, "discontiguous" refers to events that are to be associated with one another but do not temporally or spatially overlap. However, given that humans can actively maintain information "online" by rehearsing it, even when the information is no longer being presented to the sensory system, the right way to experimentally define "discontiguity" is still a question. Does it refer to a "gap" in the presentation of information (temporal discontiguity) or to an "interruption" of the active maintenance of working memory (WM) information (functional discontiguity)? To assess this, participants were imaged by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) when making judgments on whether two words were semantically related or not. In contrast with recognition memory that can be carried out through perceptual familiarity heuristics, judgments on semantic relatedness can only be accomplished through associative processing. To assess this experimentally, two words are either (1) presented at the same time (Event AB) or (2) one after the other with an unfilled, cross-viewing delay (Event A_B) (the uninterrupted discontiguity) or (3) presented one after the other, between which participants are required to perform a calculation task (Event A#B) (the interrupted discontiguity). Results of event-related fMRI analysis revealed that relative to Event AB, Event A_B was not associated with more hippocampal activity, whereas Event A#B was. The direct contrast of Event A#B relative to Event A_B also revealed significant hippocampal and parahippocampal activity. This result implied that functional discontiguity (the interruption of online maintenance of the inputted information) could be more apt at engaging the function of the hippocampus.
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Medial temporal lobe coding of item and spatial information during relational binding in working memory. J Neurosci 2015; 34:14233-42. [PMID: 25339737 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0655-14.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Several models have proposed that different medial temporal lobe (MTL) regions represent different kinds of information in the service of long-term memory. For instance, it has been proposed that perirhinal cortex (PRC), parahippocampal cortex (PHC), and hippocampus differentially support long-term memory for item information, spatial context, and item-context relations present during an event, respectively. Recent evidence has indicated that, in addition to long-term memory, MTL subregions may similarly contribute to processes that support the retention of complex spatial arrangements of objects across short delays. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging and multivoxel pattern similarity analysis to investigate the extent to which human MTL regions independently code for object and spatial information, as well as the conjunction of this information, during working memory encoding and active maintenance. Voxel activity patterns in PRC, temporopolar cortex, and amygdala carried information about individual objects, whereas activity patterns in the PHC and posterior hippocampus carried information about the configuration of spatial locations that was to be remembered. Additionally, the integrity of multivoxel patterns in the right anterior hippocampus across encoding and delay periods was predictive of accurate short-term memory for object-location relationships. These results are consistent with parallel processing of item and spatial context information by PRC and PHC, respectively, and the binding of item and context by the hippocampus.
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Object alternation: a novel probe of medial frontal function in frontotemporal dementia. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 2014; 27:316-23. [PMID: 23604006 DOI: 10.1097/wad.0b013e318293b546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We studied behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) using object alternation (OA) as a novel probe of cognition. This task was adopted from animal models and is sensitive to ventrolateral-orbitofrontal and medial frontal function in humans. OA was administered to bvFTD patients, normal controls, and a dementia control group with Alzheimer disease (AD). Two other frontal lobe measures adopted from animal models were administered: delayed response (DR) and delayed alternation (DA). Brain volumes were measured using the semiautomatic brain region extraction method. Compared with the normal controls, bvFTD patients were significantly impaired on OA and DR. For OA and DR, sensitivities and specificities were 100% and 51.5% (cutoff=22.5 errors) and 9.5% and 98% (cutoff=1.5 errors), respectively. Negative predictive value (NPV) for OA was 100% at all prevalence rates. Comparing AD with bvFTD, there were no significant differences on OA, DR, or DA. Nevertheless, positive predictive value (PPV) and NPV were good at all prevalence rates for OA (cutoff=36.5 errors) and DA (cutoff=6 errors); PPV was good for DR (cutoff=9 errors). Error scores above cutoffs favored diagnosis of AD. Performance on OA was significantly related to medial frontal gray matter atrophy. OA, together with DR and DA, may facilitate assessment of bvFTD as a novel probe of medial frontal function.
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Reas ET, Brewer JB. Imbalance of incidental encoding across tasks: an explanation for non-memory-related hippocampal activations? J Exp Psychol Gen 2013; 142:1171-9. [PMID: 23773160 DOI: 10.1037/a0033461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Functional neuroimaging studies have increasingly noted hippocampal activation associated with a variety of cognitive functions--such as decision making, attention, perception, incidental learning, prediction, and working memory--that have little apparent relation to declarative memory. Such findings might be difficult to reconcile with classical hippocampal lesion studies that show remarkable sparing of cognitive functions outside the realm of declarative memory. Even the oft-reported hippocampal activations during confident episodic retrieval are not entirely congruent with evidence that hippocampal lesions reliably impair encoding but inconsistently affect retrieval. Here we explore the conditions under which the hippocampus responds during episodic recall and recognition. Our findings suggest that anterior hippocampal activity may be related to the imbalance of incidental encoding across tasks and conditions rather than due to retrieval per se. Incidental encoding and hippocampal activity may be reduced during conditions where retrieval requires greater attentional engagement. During retrieval, anterior hippocampal activity decreases with increasing search duration and retrieval effort, and this deactivation corresponds with a coincident impaired encoding of the external environment (Israel, Seibert, Black, & Brewer, 2010; Reas & Brewer, 2013; Reas, Gimbel, Hales, & Brewer, 2011). In light of this emerging evidence, we discuss the proposal that some hippocampal activity observed during memory retrieval, or other non-memory conditions, may in fact be attributable to concomitant encoding activity that is regulated by the attentional demands of the principal task.
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Neural correlates of stimulus response and stimulus outcome shifting in healthy participants and MS patients. Brain Cogn 2013; 81:57-66. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2012] [Revised: 09/29/2012] [Accepted: 10/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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A twin study of spatial and non-spatial delayed response performance in middle age. Brain Cogn 2011; 76:43-51. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2008] [Revised: 02/25/2011] [Accepted: 03/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Zald DH, Andreotti C. Neuropsychological assessment of the orbital and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Neuropsychologia 2010; 48:3377-91. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2009] [Revised: 08/10/2010] [Accepted: 08/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Oztekin I, Curtis CE, McElree B. The medial temporal lobe and the left inferior prefrontal cortex jointly support interference resolution in verbal working memory. J Cogn Neurosci 2009; 21:1967-79. [PMID: 18855551 DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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During working memory retrieval, proactive interference (PI) can be induced by semantic similarity and episodic familiarity. Here, we used fMRI to test hypotheses about the role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) and the medial temporal lobe (MTL) regions in successful resolution of PI. Participants studied six-word lists and responded to a recognition probe after a short distracter period. We induced semantic PI by using study lists containing words within the same semantic category (e.g., animals). We also measured PI induced by recent study, which should increase episodic familiarity, by comparing recent negative probes (lures studied in previous trial) to distant negative probes (lures that had not been presented within a block). Resolving both types of PI resulted in enhanced activation in LIFG and MTL regions. We propose that the LIFG and the MTL support successful resolution of interference via controlled retrieval processes that serve to recover detailed episodic (e.g., list-specific or source) information: Specifically, the data suggest that BOLD activation in the LIFG reflects the deployment of controlled retrieval operations, regardless of whether the retrieval attempt succeeds in recovering the target information, whereas MTL activation specifically reflects access to relevant episodic information that serves to successfully resolve PI.
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Tapia-Perez JH, Sanchez-Aguilar M, Torres-Corzo JG, Gordillo-Moscoso A, Martinez-Perez P, Madeville P, de la Cruz-Mendoza E, Chalita-Williams J. Effect of Rosuvastatin on Amnesia and Disorientation after Traumatic Brain Injury (NCT00329758). J Neurotrauma 2008; 25:1011-7. [PMID: 18690806 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2008.0554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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- J. Humberto Tapia-Perez
- Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
- Neurosurgery, Hospital Central “Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto,” San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
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- Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
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- Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
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- Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation, Hospital Central “Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto,” San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
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- Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
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- Nuclear Medicine Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
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- Neurosurgery, Hospital Central “Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto,” San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
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Roth JK, Courtney SM. Neural system for updating object working memory from different sources: sensory stimuli or long-term memory. Neuroimage 2007; 38:617-30. [PMID: 17888688 PMCID: PMC2080868 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.06.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2006] [Revised: 06/09/2007] [Accepted: 06/23/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Working memory (WM) is the active maintenance of currently relevant information so that it is available for use. A crucial component of WM is the ability to update the contents when new information becomes more relevant than previously maintained information. New information can come from different sources, including from sensory stimuli (SS) or from long-term memory (LTM). Updating WM may involve a single neural system regardless of source, distinct systems for each source, or a common network with additional regions involved specifically in sensory or LTM processes. The current series of experiments indicates that a single fronto-parietal network (including supplementary motor area, parietal, left inferior frontal junction, middle frontal gyrus) is active in updating WM regardless of the source of information. Bilateral cuneus was more active during updating WM from LTM than updating from SS, but the activity in this region was attributable to recalling information from LTM regardless of whether that information was to be entered into WM for future use or not. No regions were found to be more active during updating from SS than updating from LTM. Functional connectivity analysis revealed that different regions within this common update network were differentially more correlated with visual processing regions when participants updated from SS, and more correlated with LTM processing regions when participants updated from the contents of LTM. These results suggest that a single neural mechanism is responsible for controlling the contents of WM regardless of whether that information originates from a sensory stimulus or from LTM. This network of regions involved in updating WM interacts with the rest of the brain differently depending on the source of newly relevant information.
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- Jennifer K Roth
- Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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Plailly J, Radnovich AJ, Sabri M, Royet J, Kareken DA. Involvement of the left anterior insula and frontopolar gyrus in odor discrimination. Hum Brain Mapp 2007; 28:363-72. [PMID: 17089374 PMCID: PMC6871452 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Discriminating between successively presented odors requires brief storage of the first odor's perceptual trace, which then needs to be subsequently compared to the second odor in the pair. This study explores the cortical areas involved in odor discrimination and compares them with findings from studies of working-memory, traditionally investigated with n-back paradigms. Sixteen right-handed subjects underwent H(2) (15)O positron emission tomography during counterbalanced conditions of odorless sniffing, repeated single odor detection, multiple odor detection, and conscious successive discrimination between odor pairs. Eight odorants were delivered using a computer-controlled olfactometer through a birhinal nasal cannula. Conscious successive odor discrimination evoked significantly greater activity in the left anterior insula and frontopolar gyrus when compared to reported sensory detection of the identical odors. Additional activation was found in the left lateral orbital/inferior frontal and middle frontal gyri when discrimination was compared to the odorless condition. The left anterior insula is likely involved in the evaluation of odor properties. Consistent with other studies, frontopolar and middle frontal gyrus activation is more likely related to working memory during odor discrimination.
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- Jane Plailly
- Neuropsychology Section, Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Neurosciences & Systèmes Sensoriels, UMR CNRS 5020, UCB Lyon1, IFR 19, IFNL, Lyon, France
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- Neuropsychology Section, Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Neuropsychology Section, Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Neurosciences & Systèmes Sensoriels, UMR CNRS 5020, UCB Lyon1, IFR 19, IFNL, Lyon, France
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- Neuropsychology Section, Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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Petersson KM, Gisselgård J, Gretzer M, Ingvar M. Interaction between a verbal working memory network and the medial temporal lobe. Neuroimage 2006; 33:1207-17. [PMID: 17011215 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.07.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2005] [Revised: 07/04/2006] [Accepted: 07/11/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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The irrelevant speech effect illustrates that sounds that are irrelevant to a visually presented short-term memory task still interfere with neuronal function. In the present study we explore the functional and effective connectivity of such interference. The functional connectivity analysis suggested an interaction between the level of irrelevant speech and the correlation between in particular the left superior temporal region, associated with verbal working memory, and the left medial temporal lobe. Based on this psycho-physiological interaction, and to broaden the understanding of this result, we performed a network analysis, using a simple network model for verbal working memory, to analyze its interaction with the medial temporal lobe memory system. The results showed dissociations in terms of network interactions between frontal as well as parietal and temporal areas in relation to the medial temporal lobe. The results of the present study suggest that a transition from phonological loop processing towards an engagement of episodic processing might take place during the processing of interfering irrelevant sounds. We speculate that, in response to the irrelevant sounds, this reflects a dynamic shift in processing as suggested by a closer interaction between a verbal working memory system and the medial temporal lobe memory system.
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- Karl Magnus Petersson
- F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Blair KS, Newman C, Mitchell DGV, Richell RA, Leonard A, Morton J, Blair RJR. Differentiating among prefrontal substrates in psychopathy: neuropsychological test findings. Neuropsychology 2006; 20:153-165. [PMID: 16594776 DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.20.2.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Frontal lobe and consequent executive dysfunction have long been related to psychopathy. More recently, there have been suggestions that specific regions of frontal cortex, rather than all of frontal cortex, may be implicated in psychopathy. To examine this issue, the authors presented 25 individuals with psychopathy and 30 comparison individuals with measures preferentially indexing the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC; object alternation task), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC; spatial alternation task), and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC; number-Stroop reading and counting tasks). The individuals with psychopathy showed significant impairment on the measure preferentially sensitive to OFC functioning. In contrast, the 2 groups did not show impairment on the measures preferentially sensitive to the functioning of the DLPFC or ACC. These results are interpreted with reference to executive dysfunction accounts of the disorder.
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- K S Blair
- Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
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- Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
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- Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health
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- Department of Psychology, Her Majesty's Prison Wormwood Scrubs
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
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- Department of Psychology, Her Majesty's Prison Wormwood Scrubs
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Turner GR, Levine B. The functional neuroanatomy of classic delayed response tasks in humans and the limitations of cross-method convergence in prefrontal function. Neuroscience 2006; 139:327-37. [PMID: 16324791 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.08.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2005] [Revised: 08/19/2005] [Accepted: 08/24/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Three classic delay tasks: spatial delayed response, delayed spatial alternation and delayed object-alternation are prototypical experimental paradigms for mapping the functional neuroanatomy of prefrontal cortex in animals. These tasks have been applied in human lesion studies, yet there have been very few studies investigating their functional neuroanatomy in healthy human subjects. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the functional neuroanatomy of these classic paradigms (and a fourth: object delayed response) in a single sample of healthy human participants. Consistent with previous animal, human lesion, and functional neuroimaging studies, activity was observed in prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices across all three delay tasks. Task-specific activations, however, were not entirely consistent with predictions drawn from animal lesion studies. For example, delayed object-alternation activated dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region not generally implicated in animal lesion reports. Spatial delayed response, classically associated with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, did not activate this region; it rather activated posterior premotor cortices involved in response preparation, as did spatial alternation. All three tasks activated the frontopolar cortex, a region not considered crucial in animal research but associated with manipulation of internally generated information in recent human research. While cross-method convergence may be attained for lower level perceptual or motor tasks, the results of this study caution against the assumption that lesion-specific effects in animals generalize to human prefrontal cortex function.
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- G R Turner
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6A 2E1.
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Carrozzo M, Koch G, Turriziani P, Caltagirone C, Carlesimo GA, Lacquaniti F. Integration of cognitive allocentric information in visuospatial short-term memory through the hippocampus. Hippocampus 2006; 15:1072-84. [PMID: 16161036 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Visuospatial short-term memory relies on a widely distributed neocortical network: some areas support the encoding process of the visually acquired spatial information, whereas other ares are more involved in the active maintenance of the encoded information. Recently, in a pointing to remembered targets task, it has been shown in healthy subjects that, for memory delays of 5 s, spatial errors are affected also by cognitive allocentric information, i.e., covert spatial information derived from a pure mental representation. We tested the effect of a lesion of the hippocampus on the accuracy of pointing movements toward remembered targets, with memory delays falling in the 0.5-30 s range. The spatial distributions of the two target sets we used (line and left-right) allowed the exploitation of cognitive allocentric spatial information: both sets were in the frontal plane, the line one being composed by eleven points distributed uniformly along a virtual line tilted 45 degrees away from the vertical, whereas the left-right set was composed by two workspaces symmetrically distributed at the extremes of a horizontal virtual line. We have found a significant difference between the performance of three hippocampal amnesic subjects and a group of normal controls for delays equal to or longer than 15 s, the difference being along the allocentric axis, i.e., the direction of the virtual line defined by the target set. On this basis we suggest that the hippocampal formation may enhance the spatial information processed within short-term memory with cognitive allocentric information. The association that may be operated through the neocortical-hippocampal loop of the newly acquired spatial information with well established spatial cognitive items could affect the precision of the short-term memory storage for memory delays exceeding about 15 s and might be the result of a modulation of the span of the spatial memory buffer along context-specific directions.
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- M Carrozzo
- C.N.R., Institute of Neuroscience, Laboratory of Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology, Rome, Italy.
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Brandt T, Schautzer F, Hamilton DA, Brüning R, Markowitsch HJ, Kalla R, Darlington C, Smith P, Strupp M. Vestibular loss causes hippocampal atrophy and impaired spatial memory in humans. Brain 2005; 128:2732-41. [PMID: 16141283 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 390] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The human hippocampal formation plays a crucial role in various aspects of memory processing. Most literature on the human hippocampus stresses its non-spatial memory functions, but older work in rodents and some other species emphasized the role of the hippocampus in spatial learning and memory as well. A few human studies also point to a direct relation between hippocampal size, navigation and spatial memory. Conversely, the importance of the vestibular system for navigation and spatial memory was until now convincingly demonstrated only in animals. Using magnetic resonance imaging volumetry, we found that patients (n = 10) with acquired chronic bilateral vestibular loss (BVL) develop a significant selective atrophy of the hippocampus (16.9% decrease relative to controls). When tested with a virtual variant (on a PC) of the Morris water task these patients exhibited significant spatial memory and navigation deficits that closely matched the pattern of hippocampal atrophy. These spatial memory deficits were not associated with general memory deficits. The current data on BVL patients and bilateral hippocampal atrophy revive the idea that a major--and probably phylogenetically ancient--function of the archicortical hippocampal tissue is still evident in spatial aspects of memory processing for navigation. Furthermore, these data demonstrate for the first time in humans that spatial navigation critically depends on preserved vestibular function, even when the subjects are stationary, e.g. without any actual vestibular or somatosensory stimulation.
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- Thomas Brandt
- Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
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Campo P, Maestú F, Capilla A, Fernández S, Fernández A, Ortiz T. Activity in human medial temporal lobe associated with encoding process in spatial working memory revealed by magnetoencephalography. Eur J Neurosci 2005; 21:1741-8. [PMID: 15845102 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.03943.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Animal studies have suggested that working memory may be affected after lesions in the medial temporal lobe, although this assumption has not been corroborated by neuropsychological studies in humans. However, very recently, several functional neuroimaging studies in humans have successfully observed activation of the medial temporal lobe during working memory tasks. The main aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of the medial temporal lobe to the encoding process in spatial working memory. To address this issue we registered the neuromagnetic brain patterns of eight adult volunteers while they performed a spatial working memory task and more perceptual task using identical stimuli. After a initial phase (between 200 and 400 ms) without differences in activation, the medial temporal lobe showed a sustained activity, more evident in the right hemisphere, lasting up to 800 ms during the encoding stage of the spatial working memory task, while the activation in the perceptual task terminated earlier (approximately 400 ms after stimulus onset). The finding of a continued activation of the medial temporal lobe strongly suggests the contribution of this brain region to encoding operations in working memory.
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- Pablo Campo
- Centro de Magnetoencefalografía Dr Pérez-Modrego, Pabellón 8, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Curtis CE, D'Esposito M. The effects of prefrontal lesions on working memory performance and theory. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 2005; 4:528-39. [PMID: 15849895 DOI: 10.3758/cabn.4.4.528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The effects of experimental lesions of the monkey prefrontal cortex have played a predominant role in current conceptualizations of the functional organization of the lateral prefrontal cortex, especially with regard to working memory. The loss or sparing of certain performance abilities has been shown to be attributable to differences in the specific requirements of behavioral testing (e.g., spatial vs. non-spatial memoranda) along with differences in the specific locations of applied ablations (e.g., dorsal vs. ventral prefrontal cortex). Such findings, which have accumulated now for over a century, have led to widespread acceptance that the dorsolateral and ventrolateral aspects of the prefrontal cortex may perform different, specialized roles in higher order cognition. Nonetheless, it remains unclear and controversial how the lateral prefrontal cortex is functionally organized. Two main views propose different types of functional specialization of the dorsal and ventral prefrontal cortex. The first contends that the lateral prefrontal cortex is segregated according to the processing of spatial and nonspatial domains of information. The second contends that domain specialization is not the key to the organization of the prefrontal cortex, but that instead, the dorsal and ventral prefrontal cortices perform qualitatively different operations. This report critically reviews all relevant monkey lesion studies that have served as the foundation for current theories regarding the functional organization of the prefrontal cortex. Our goals are to evaluate how well the existing lesion data support each theory and to enumerate caveats that must be considered when interpreting the relevant literature.
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- Clayton E Curtis
- Department of Psychology, Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
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Zald DH, Curtis C, Chernitsky LA, Pardo JV. Frontal lobe activation during object alternation acquisition. Neuropsychology 2005; 19:97-105. [PMID: 15656767 DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.19.1.97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Object alternation (OA) tasks are increasingly used as probes of ventral prefrontal functioning in humans. In the most common variant of the OA task, subjects must deduce the task rule through trial-and-error learning. To examine the neural correlates of OA acquisition, the authors measured regional cerebral blood flow with positron emission tomography while subjects acquired an OA task, performed a sensorimotor control condition, or performed already learned and practiced OA. As expected, activations emerged in the ventral prefrontal cortex. However, activation of the presupplemental motor area was more closely associated with successful task performance. The authors suggest that areas beyond the ventral prefrontal cortex are critically involved in OA acquisition.
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Campo P, Maestú F, Ortiz T, Capilla A, Fernández S, Fernández A. Is medial temporal lobe activation specific for encoding long-term memories? Neuroimage 2005; 25:34-42. [PMID: 15734341 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.07.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2004] [Revised: 06/10/2004] [Accepted: 07/19/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Several neuroimaging studies have consistently demonstrated the critical involvement of prefrontal cortices and medial temporal lobes during long-term encoding. While the contribution of prefrontal lobes to working memory is well established, the role of the MTL structures remains controversial. To address this issue, we registered the neuromagnetic brain patterns of eight adult volunteers while they performed two working memory tasks (verbal and spatial) using magnetoencephalography (MEG). MEG recordings can provide real-time measures of brain activity, thus allowing detailed tracking of the time-course of brain activation during the encoding phase. We detected sustained and material-specific activity on the MTLs during the encoding phase of a working memory task, based on verbal and spatial information. Two peaks of activation were noted in the left MTL during word encoding in two non-consecutive time periods (500-600 ms and 700-800 ms after stimulus onset). Right MTL laterality was found for encoding locations when we collapsed activity sources in a wider time period (400-800 ms). In addition, we provided the spatiotemporal profiles of what seems to be two different brain circuits specific for each type of material. Finally, following an emerging conceptualization of working memory, we hypothesized that encoding processes mediated by the MTL to long-term memory would also apply to working memory.
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- Pablo Campo
- Centro de Magnetoencefalografía Dr. Pérez-Modrego, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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Kareken DA, Mosnik DM, Doty RL, Dzemidzic M, Hutchins GD. Functional anatomy of human odor sensation, discrimination, and identification in health and aging. Neuropsychology 2003; 17:482-95. [PMID: 12959514 DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.17.3.482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Aging of cerebral olfactory regions was studied in 5 younger and 6 older healthy adults, matched by odor discrimination and identification scores, with positron emission tomography during odor sensory stimulation, discrimination, and identification tasks. Sensory stimulation engaged bilateral piriform and orbitofrontal regions, but neither discrimination nor identification evoked added temporal or orbital activity. Discrimination involved the hippocampus, implicating its role in serial odor comparisons (olfactory working memory). Left inferior frontal activity during identification may reflect semantic associations. Older participants deactivated the left gyrus rectus/medial orbital gyrus (GR/MOG) during sensory stimulation but activated GR/MOG during discrimination and identification. Adjusting for detection threshold eliminated GR/MOG group differences during sensory stimulation. Diminished threshold may lead to reduced engagement of olfactory association areas.
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- David A Kareken
- Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202, USA.
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Carbon M, Ghilardi MF, Feigin A, Fukuda M, Silvestri G, Mentis MJ, Ghez C, Moeller JR, Eidelberg D. Learning networks in health and Parkinson's disease: reproducibility and treatment effects. Hum Brain Mapp 2003; 19:197-211. [PMID: 12811735 PMCID: PMC6871830 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.10115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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In a previous H(2) (15)O/PET study of motor sequence learning, we used principal components analysis (PCA) of region of interest (ROI) data to identify performance-related activation patterns in normal subjects and patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). In the present study, we determined whether these patterns predicted learning performance in subsequent normal and untreated PD cohorts. Using a voxel-based PCA approach, we correlated the changes in network activity that occurred during antiparkinsonian treatment and their relationship to learning performance. We found that the previously identified ROI-based patterns correlated with learning performance in the prospective normal (P < 0.01) and untreated PD (P < 0.05) cohorts. Voxel analysis revealed that target retrieval was related to a network characterized by bilateral activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal, premotor and anterior cingulate cortex, the precuneus, and the occipital association areas as well as the right ventral prefrontal and inferior parietal regions. Target acquisition was associated with a different network involving activation of the caudate, putamen, and right dentate nucleus, as well as the left ventral prefrontal and inferior parietal areas. Antiparkinsonian therapy gave rise to changes in retrieval performance that correlated with network modulation (P < 0.01). Increases in network activation and learning performance occurred with internal pallidal deep brain stimulation (GPi DBS); decrements in these measures were present with levodopa. Our findings suggest that network analysis of activation data can provide stable descriptors of learning performance. Network quantification can provide an objective means of assessing the effects of therapy on cognitive functioning in neurodegenerative disorders.
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- Maren Carbon
- Center for Neurosciences, North Shore‐Long Island Jewish Research Institute, Manhasset, New York
- Department of Neurology, North Shore University Hospital and New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Motor Control Laboratory, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Center for Neurosciences, North Shore‐Long Island Jewish Research Institute, Manhasset, New York
- Department of Neurology, North Shore University Hospital and New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Center for Neurosciences, North Shore‐Long Island Jewish Research Institute, Manhasset, New York
- Department of Neurology, North Shore University Hospital and New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Motor Control Laboratory, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Center for Neurosciences, North Shore‐Long Island Jewish Research Institute, Manhasset, New York
- Department of Neurology, North Shore University Hospital and New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Motor Control Laboratory, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Center for Neurosciences, North Shore‐Long Island Jewish Research Institute, Manhasset, New York
- Department of Neurology, North Shore University Hospital and New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
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Cabeza R, Dolcos F, Graham R, Nyberg L. Similarities and differences in the neural correlates of episodic memory retrieval and working memory. Neuroimage 2002; 16:317-30. [PMID: 12030819 DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 340] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Functional neuroimaging studies have shown that different cognitive functions activate overlapping brain regions. An activation overlap may occur because a region is involved in operations tapped by different cognitive functions or because the activated area comprises subregions differentially involved in each of the functions. To investigate these issues, we directly compared brain activity during episodic retrieval (ER) and working memory (WM) using event-related functional MRI (fMRI). ER was investigated with a word recognition test, and WM was investigated with a word delayed-response test. Two-phase trials distinguished between retrieval mode and cue-specific aspects of ER, as well as between encoding/maintenance and retrieval aspects of WM. The results revealed a common fronto-parieto-cerebellar network for ER and WM, as well as subregions differentially involved in each function. Specifically, there were two main findings. First, the results differentiated common and specific subregions within the prefrontal cortex: (i) left dorsolateral areas were recruited by both functions, possibly reflecting monitoring operations; (ii) bilateral anterior and ventrolateral areas were more activated during ER than during WM, possibly reflecting retrieval mode and cue-specific ER operations, respectively; and (iii) left posterior/ventral (Broca's area) and bilateral posterior/dorsal areas were more activated during WM than during ER, possibly reflecting phonological and generic WM operations, respectively. Second, hippocampal and parahippocampal regions were activated not only for ER but also for WM. This result suggests that indexing operations mediated by the medial temporal lobes apply to both long-term and short-term memory traces. Overall, our results show that direct cross-function comparisons are critical to understand the role of different brain regions in various cognitive functions.
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- Roberto Cabeza
- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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Block RI, O'Leary DS, Hichwa RD, Augustinack JC, Boles Ponto LL, Ghoneim MM, Arndt S, Hurtig RR, Watkins GL, Hall JA, Nathan PE, Andreasen NC. Effects of frequent marijuana use on memory-related regional cerebral blood flow. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2002; 72:237-50. [PMID: 11900794 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-3057(01)00771-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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It is uncertain whether frequent marijuana use adversely affects human brain function. Using positron emission tomography (PET), memory-related regional cerebral blood flow was compared in frequent marijuana users and nonusing control subjects after 26+ h of monitored abstention. Memory-related blood flow in marijuana users, relative to control subjects, showed decreases in prefrontal cortex, increases in memory-relevant regions of cerebellum, and altered lateralization in hippocampus. Marijuana users differed most in brain activity related to episodic memory encoding. In learning a word list to criterion over multiple trials, marijuana users, relative to control subjects, required means of 2.7 more presentations during initial learning and 3.1 more presentations during subsequent relearning. In single-trial recall, marijuana users appeared to rely more on short-term memory, recalling 23% more than control subjects from the end of a list, but 19% less from the middle. These findings indicate altered memory-related brain function in marijuana users.
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- Robert I Block
- Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Room 5140, Westlawn Building, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
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Zald DH, Curtis C, Folley BS, Pardo JV. Prefrontal contributions to delayed spatial and object alternation: A positron emission tomography study. Neuropsychology 2002. [DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.16.2.182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Sperling RA, Bates JF, Cocchiarella AJ, Schacter DL, Rosen BR, Albert MS. Encoding novel face-name associations: a functional MRI study. Hum Brain Mapp 2001. [PMID: 11559958 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.1047 [pii]] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The process of forming new associations between previously unrelated items of information, such as a name and a face, likely requires the integration of activity within multiple brain regions. The hippocampus and related structures in the medial temporal lobe are thought to be particularly critical in binding together items of information. We studied eight healthy young subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during the encoding of novel face-name associations compared to viewing repeated face-name pairs. A consistent pattern of activation was observed in the hippocampus, pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus, fusiform and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices across individual subjects. The location of the activation within the hippocampus was more anterior than previously reported in studies using similar novel vs. repeated paradigms with stimuli that did not specifically require relational processing among unrelated items. These data suggest that the process of forming new face-name associations is supported by a distributed network of brain regions, and provide additional evidence for the essential role of the hippocampus in associative memory processes.
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- R A Sperling
- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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Ranganath C, D'Esposito M. Medial temporal lobe activity associated with active maintenance of novel information. Neuron 2001; 31:865-73. [PMID: 11567623 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00411-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 291] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated the role of medial temporal regions during active maintenance of information over short delays or working memory. In experiment 1, we observed sustained bilateral hippocampal activation during maintenance of novel faces across a short delay period but not during face encoding or recognition. In contrast, we observed transient right parahippocampal activation during encoding and recognition but not during maintenance. We replicated these findings in experiment 2 and further determined that anterior hippocampal activation was greater during maintenance of novel than familiar faces. Our results reveal the importance of medial temporal lobe regions for the active maintenance of novel information in the absence of perceptual stimulation.
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- C Ranganath
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Sperling RA, Bates JF, Cocchiarella AJ, Schacter DL, Rosen BR, Albert MS. Encoding novel face-name associations: a functional MRI study. Hum Brain Mapp 2001; 14:129-39. [PMID: 11559958 PMCID: PMC6871827 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.1047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The process of forming new associations between previously unrelated items of information, such as a name and a face, likely requires the integration of activity within multiple brain regions. The hippocampus and related structures in the medial temporal lobe are thought to be particularly critical in binding together items of information. We studied eight healthy young subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during the encoding of novel face-name associations compared to viewing repeated face-name pairs. A consistent pattern of activation was observed in the hippocampus, pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus, fusiform and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices across individual subjects. The location of the activation within the hippocampus was more anterior than previously reported in studies using similar novel vs. repeated paradigms with stimuli that did not specifically require relational processing among unrelated items. These data suggest that the process of forming new face-name associations is supported by a distributed network of brain regions, and provide additional evidence for the essential role of the hippocampus in associative memory processes.
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- R A Sperling
- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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