Reduced anterior hippocampal and ventromedial prefrontal activity when repeatedly retrieving autobiographical memories
| Autor: | Mathilde Rioux, Signy Sheldon, Lauri Gurguryan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cognitive Neuroscience
Memory Episodic Ventromedial prefrontal cortex Prefrontal Cortex Hippocampal formation Hippocampus 050105 experimental psychology Temporal lobe 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cortex (anatomy) medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Episodic memory Brain Mapping Autobiographical memory 05 social sciences Memory rehearsal Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging medicine.anatomical_structure Posterior cingulate Mental Recall Psychology Neuroscience 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | HippocampusREFERENCES. 31(8) |
| ISSN: | 1098-1063 |
| Popis: | Research has reported that repeatedly retrieving a novel or imagined event representation reduces activity within brain regions critical for constructing mental scenarios, namely the anterior hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). The primary aim of this investigation was to test if this pattern reported for imagined events would be found when repeatedly recollecting autobiographical memories. Twenty-four participants retrieved 12 pre-selected autobiographical memories four times while undergoing an fMRI scan. We used a region of interest approach to investigate how the anterior and posterior hippocampus as well as cortical regions critical for memory retrieval-the vmPFC and the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)-are affected by repeated retrievals. This analysis revealed an effect in the bilateral anterior hippocampi and vmPFC, but not the posterior hippocampus nor the PCC, with activity decreasing in these regions as a function of repeated retrievals. A multivariate analytic approach (Partial Least Squares) was used to assess whole-brain patterns of neural activity associated with repeated retrievals. This analysis revealed one pattern of neural activity associated with the initial retrieval of a memory (e.g., inferior frontal and temporal lobe regions) and a separate pattern of activity associated with later retrievals that was distributed primarily across the lateral parietal cortices. These findings suggest that the anterior hippocampus and the vmPFC support the episodic construction of an autobiographical memory the first time it is retrieved and that alternate nonconstructive processes support its subsequent retrieval shortly thereafter. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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