What is normal in normal aging? Effects of aging, amyloid and Alzheimer's disease on the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus

AM Fjell, L McEvoy, D Holland, AM Dale… - Progress in …, 2014 - Elsevier
What can be expected in normal aging, and where does normal aging stop and pathological
neurodegeneration begin? With the slow progression of age-related dementias such as …

The contribution of the human posterior parietal cortex to episodic memory

C Sestieri, GL Shulman, M Corbetta - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is traditionally associated with attention, perceptual
decision making and sensorimotor transformations, but more recent human neuroimaging …

The evolution of the temporoparietal junction and posterior superior temporal sulcus

GH Patel, C Sestieri, M Corbetta - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
The scale at which humans can handle complex social situations is massively increased
compared to other animals. However, the neural substrates of this scaling remain poorly …

Causal neural network of metamemory for retrospection in primates

K Miyamoto, T Osada, R Setsuie, M Takeda, K Tamura… - Science, 2017 - science.org
We know how confidently we know: Metacognitive self-monitoring of memory states, so-
called “metamemory,” enables strategic and efficient information collection based on past …

Multiscale chemogenetic dissection of fronto-temporal top-down regulation for object memory in primates

T Hirabayashi, Y Nagai, Y Hori, Y Hori, K Oyama… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Visual object memory is a fundamental element of various cognitive abilities, and the
underlying neural mechanisms have been extensively examined especially in the anterior …

High-expanding cortical regions in human development and evolution are related to higher intellectual abilities

AM Fjell, LT Westlye, I Amlien, CK Tamnes… - Cerebral …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Cortical surface area has tremendously expanded during human evolution, and similar
patterns of cortical expansion have been observed during childhood development. An …

Role of motor cortex NMDA receptors in learning-dependent synaptic plasticity of behaving mice

MT Hasan, S Hernández-González, G Dogbevia… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The primary motor cortex has an important role in the precise execution of learned motor
responses. During motor learning, synaptic efficacy between sensory and primary motor …

Concurrent-and after-effects of medial temporal lobe stimulation on directed information flow to and from prefrontal and parietal cortices during memory formation

A Das, V Menon - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Electrical stimulation of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) has the potential to uncover causal
circuit mechanisms underlying memory function. However, little is known about how MTL …

Functional definitions of parietal areas in human and non-human primates

GA Orban - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Establishing homologies between cortical areas in animal models and humans lies at the
heart of translational neuroscience, as it demonstrates how knowledge obtained from these …

Functional organization for response inhibition in the right inferior frontal cortex of individual human brains

A Suda, T Osada, A Ogawa, M Tanaka… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The right inferior frontal cortex (IFC) is critical to response inhibition. The right IFC referred in
the human studies of response inhibition is located in the posterior part of the inferior frontal …