Brain regions differentially involved in remembering what and when: a PET study.
Recollecting a past episode involves remembering not only what happened but also when it happened. We used positron emission tomography (PET) to directly contrast the neural correlates of item and temporalorder memory. Subjects studied a list of words and were then scanned while retrieving information about what words were in the list or when they occurred within the list. Item retrieval was related to increased neural activity in medial temporal and basal forebrain regions, whereas temporal-order retrieval was associated with activations in dorsal prefrontal, cuneus/precuneus, and right posterior parietal regions. The dissociation between temporal and frontal lobe regions confirms and extends previous lesion data. The results show that temporal-order retrieval involves a network of frontal and posterior brain regions.
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- Tomography, Emission-Computed
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- Temporal Lobe
- Probability
- Neurology & Neurosurgery
- Memory, Short-Term
- Memory
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- Learning
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
ISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- Tomography, Emission-Computed
- Time
- Temporal Lobe
- Probability
- Neurology & Neurosurgery
- Memory, Short-Term
- Memory
- Male
- Learning
- Language