How to characterize the function of a brain region

S Genon, A Reid, R Langner, K Amunts… - Trends in cognitive …, 2018 - cell.com
Many brain regions have been defined, but a comprehensive formalization of each region's
function in relation to human behavior is still lacking. Current knowledge comes from various …

The hippocampus supports multiple cognitive processes through relational binding and comparison

RK Olsen, SN Moses, L Riggs, JD Ryan - Frontiers in human …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
It has been well established that the hippocampus plays a pivotal role in explicit long-term
recognition memory. However, findings from amnesia, lesion and recording studies with non …

Memory consolidation by replay of stimulus-specific neural activity

L Deuker, J Olligs, J Fell, TA Kranz… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Memory consolidation transforms initially labile memory traces into more stable
representations. One putative mechanism for consolidation is the reactivation of memory …

Episodic reinstatement in the medial temporal lobe

BP Staresina, RNA Henson… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
The essence of episodic memory is our ability to reexperience past events in great detail,
even in the absence of external stimulus cues. Does the phenomenological reinstatement of …

Perirhinal and parahippocampal cortices differentially contribute to later recollection of object-and scene-related event details

BP Staresina, KD Duncan, L Davachi - Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
How the different elements of our experiences are encoded into episodic memories has
remained one of the major questions in memory research. Although the pivotal role of the …

Emerging directions in emotional episodic memory

F Dolcos, Y Katsumi, M Weymar, M Moore… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Building upon the existing literature on emotional memory, the present review examines
emerging evidence from brain imaging investigations regarding four research directions:(1) …

The importance of unitization for familiarity-based learning.

CM Parks, AP Yonelinas - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
It is often assumed that recollection is necessary to support memory for novel associations,
whereas familiarity supports memory for single items. However, the levels of unitization …

Promising developments in neuropsychological approaches for the detection of preclinical Alzheimer's disease: a selective review

DM Rentz, MA Parra Rodriguez, R Amariglio… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2013 - Springer
Recently published guidelines suggest that the most opportune time to treat individuals with
Alzheimer's disease is during the preclinical phase of the disease. This is a phase when …

A dynamic approach to recognition memory.

GE Cox, RM Shiffrin - Psychological review, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
We present a dynamic model of memory that integrates the processes of perception,
retrieval from knowledge, retrieval of events, and decision making as these evolve from 1 …

Associative memory in aging: the effect of unitization on source memory.

C Bastin, RA Diana, J Simon, F Collette… - Psychology and …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
In normal aging, memory for associations declines more than memory for individual items.
Unitization is an encoding process defined by creation of a new single entity to represent a …