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Determine whether lateral parietal cortex directly represents specific retrieved content during visual memory recall or merely tracks retrieval success signals from sensory cortices.

June 4, 2014Journal of NeuroscienceOpen Access

Successful Remembering Elicits Event-Specific Activity Patterns in Lateral Parietal Cortex

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BKBrice A. KuhlUniversity of Oregon MCMarvin M. ChunYale University

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Neuroimaging study reveals event-specific activity patterns in lateral parietal cortex in humans, indicating that the region actively represents retrieved visual content.

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Determine whether lateral parietal cortex directly represents specific retrieved content during visual memory recall or merely tracks retrieval success signals from sensory cortices.
Conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment in humans during visual memory recall contrasting faces and scenes.
Applied complementary multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) to compare content reactivation across the lateral parietal cortex (LPC) and ventral temporal cortex (VTC).
Reactivation of broad visual category information (faces vs. scenes) occurred robustly in both LPC and VTC during recall.
Recall-related neural activity patterns in LPC, but not VTC, differentiated between individual remembered events.
Event-specific content representation localized primarily to the angular gyrus within LPC, scaling with subjective ratings of recall vividness.

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Kuhl et al. (2014) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1d16cd73c56dd1bd2f24fb https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4328-13.2014

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Neuroimaging study reveals event-specific activity patterns in lateral parietal cortex in humans, indicating that the region actively represents retrieved visual content.

Successful Remembering Elicits Event-Specific Activity Patterns in Lateral Parietal Cortex

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