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Functional dissociation among components of remembering: control, perceived oldness, and content.

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Remembering is the ability to bring back to mind episodes from ones past and is presumably accomplished by multiple, interdependent processes. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging study, neural correlates of three hypothesized components ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2003May in Journal: J Neurosci (Language : eng)

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1. J Neurosci. 2003 May;23(9):3869-80

Functional dissociation among components of remembering: control, perceived oldness, and content.

Wheeler ME, Buckner RL

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.

Remembering is the ability to bring back to mind episodes from one's past and is presumably accomplished by multiple, interdependent processes. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging study, neural correlates of three hypothesized components of remembering were explored, including those associated with control, perceived oldness, and retrieved content. Levels of each component were separately manipulated by varying study procedures and sorting trials by subject response. Results suggest that specific regions in the left prefrontal cortex, including anterior-ventral Brodmann's Area (BA) 45/47 and more dorsal BA 44, increase activity when high levels of control are required but do not necessarily modulate on the basis of perceived oldness. Parietal and frontal regions, particularly the left parietal cortex near BA 40/39, associate with the perception that information is old and generalize across levels of control and retrieved content. Activity in the parietal cortex correlated with perceived oldness even when judgments were in error. The inferior temporal cortex near BA 19/37 associated differentially with retrieval of visual object content. Within the ventral visual processing stream, content-based modulation was specific to late object-responsive regions, suggesting an efficient retrieval process that spares areas that process more primitive retinotopically mapped visual features. Taken collectively, the results identify neural correlates of distinct components of remembering and provide evidence for a functional dissociation. Frontal regions may contribute to control processes that interact with different posterior regions that contribute a signal that information is old and support the contents of retrieval.

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First Name	LastName	Initials
Mark E	Wheeler	ME
Randy L	Buckner	RL

Affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.

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