Neural substrates of the self‐memory system: New insights from a meta‐analysis
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The self has been the topic of philosophical inquiry for centuries. Neuropsychological data suggest that the declarative self can be fractionated into three functionally independent systems processing personal information at several levels of abstraction, including episodic memories of one's own life (episodic autobiographical memory, EAM), semantic knowledge of facts about one's own life (semantic autobiographical memory, SAM), and semantic summary representations of one's personal identity (conceptual self, CS). Our proposal here was to present a comprehensive description of the neural networks underpinning self‐representations. To this aim, we performed three meta‐analyses, one each for EAM, SAM, and CS, using the activation likelihood estimation (ALE) method. We expected a shift from posterior to anterior structures associated with the incrementally increasing level of abstraction of self‐representations. The key finding was that EAM predominantly activates posterior and limbic regions including hippocampus. SAM is associated with anterior activations and also posterior and limbic activations in a lesser degree than EAM. CS mainly recruits medial prefrontal structures. Interestingly, medial prefrontal cortex is activated irrespective of the level of abstraction, but a more caudal part is recruited during CS, while SAM and EAM activate more rostral portions. To conclude, in line with the previous proposals, our results corroborate the idea that the declarative self is not monolithic but a multidimensional construct comprising distinct representations at different levels of abstraction. Hum Brain Mapp, 2013. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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“Neuroimaging activation patterns have been variable, in part due to variations in control conditions, which have included rest, semantic memory tasks and fictitious memories (Martinelli et al., 2013; Svoboda et al., 2006).”
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On the Role of the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Self-Processing: The Valuation Hypothesis
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“, a task that particularly involves the “Me”) recruits preferentially medial prefrontal structures (Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundStawarczyk, D., & D'Argembeau, A. (2015) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.22818 · Cited by 188 · see citing works
“…such as the evaluation of one’s personality traits and retrieval of autobiographical memories also engage the mPFC [for a recent meta-analysis, see Martinelli et al., 2013], suggesting that this region contributes to the processing of various self-related characteristics and experiences.”
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Damage to the default mode network disrupts autobiographical memory retrieval
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“In contrast, SAM has been associated with greater activity in frontal and lateral temporal regions, such as the mPFC, middle and inferior temporal regions (e.g. fusiform gyrus) (e.g. Addis et al., 2004b; Levine et al., 2004; Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundResultInfluentialFunctional Connectivity Mapping of Regions Associated with Self- and Other-Processing
Murray, R., Debbané, M., Fox, P. T., Bzdok, D., & Eickhoff, S. (2014) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.22703 · Cited by 137 · see citing works
“used the theoretical and psychological literatures to describe the conceptual self as an implicit organization of information made conscious via abstract mental representations of personal traits, emotions, beliefs, values, and attitudes [Martinelli et al., 2012; Morin and Hamper, 2012; Morin and Michaud, 2007].”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialDuval, C., Desgranges, B., de La Sayette, V., Belliard, S., Eustache, F., & Piolino, P. (2012) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.019 · Cited by 138 · see citing works
Self-citationMartinelli, P., Anssens, A., Sperduti, M., & Piolino, P. (2012) · Neuropsychology · doi:10.1037/a0030453 · Cited by 133 · see citing works
Self-citationAbove and beyond the concrete: The diverse representational substrates of the predictive brain
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“, 2006), and during active state, they are the core system of the autobiographical memory network (Martinelli et al., 2012), with the posterior cingulate gyrus sustaining episodic self-related memory (Maddock et al.”
Cognitive neuroscience of human counterfactual reasoning
Hoeck, N. V. (2015) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00420 · Cited by 130 · see citing works
“…counterfactual option, and negatively with worst counterfactual option, suggesting that the lateral aPFC encodes and updates information associated with the best alternative and provides a signal for switching to an advantageous alternative (Boorman et al., 2009, 2011; Rushworth et al., 2011).”
BackgroundBrains creating stories of selves: the neural basis of autobiographical reasoning.
D'Argembeau, A., Cassol, H., Phillips, C., Balteau, E., Salmon, É., & der Linden, M. V. (2014) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nst028 · Cited by 102 · see citing works
“The tasks used in these studies typically consist of remembering specific events or retrieving semantic knowledge of facts about one’s life (Martinelli et al., 2013).”
InfluentialDo I feel or do I know? Neuroimaging meta-analyses on the multiple facets of empathy
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Mirror Neuron System and Mentalizing System connect during online social interaction
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“Interestingly, this set of regions corresponds to the ‘‘default mode network’’ (DMN) that shows a sustained activity during self-referential processing (Lemogne et al. 2011; Martinelli et al. 2013; Northoff et al. 2006).”
BackgroundSelf-citationKlein, S. B. (2013) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00003 · Cited by 94 · see citing works
“In addition, the content of semantic memory is capable of contributing to a knowledge-based representation that includes both spatial and temporal contextual information (e.g., “I know that John Lennon was born on October 9th, 1940 in Liverpool, UK, although I do not recollect the event in which that knowledge was acq…”
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Personal semantic memory: Insights from neuropsychological research on amnesia
Grilli, M. D., & Verfaellie, M. H. (2014) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.06.012 · Cited by 91 · see citing works
“Furthermore, these results indicate that the activation of MTL regions observed during the retrieval of autobiographical facts in functional neuroimaging research with healthy adults (Martinelli et al., 2013) is not simply a byproduct of renewed encoding of the facts; rather, it is necessary for their retrieval.”
BackgroundResultInfluentialAutobiographical Memory Disturbances in Depression: A Novel Therapeutic Target?
Köhler, C. A., Carvalho, A. F., Alves, G. S., McIntyre, R. S., Hyphantis, T. N., & Cammarota, M. (2015) · Neural Plasticity · doi:10.1155/2015/759139 · Cited by 90 · see citing works
“[75] performed three meta-analyses of functional neuroimaging studies investigating neural networks related to the retrieval of episodic memories (the authors further studied “strictly” episodicmemories), semantic memories, and the conceptual-self (Table 1).”
BackgroundRenoult, L., Tanguay, A. F. N., Beaudry, M., Tavakoli, P., Rabipour, S., Campbell, K. B., Moscovitch, M., Levine, B., & Davidson, P. S. R. (2015) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.08.013 · Cited by 88 · see citing works
“Despite a renewed interest in personal semantics in recent years (Grilli and Verfaellie, 2014, 2015; Martinelli et al., 2013), only a handful of studies have compared personal semantics to both semantic and episodic memory.”
BackgroundCorte, V. L., Sperduti, M., Malherbe, C., Vialatte, F., Lion, S., Gallarda, T., Oppenheim, C., & Piolino, P. (2016) · Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnagi.2016.00204 · Cited by 84 · see citing works
“Twenty-four activities or interests for episodic autobiographical memory (EAM) were selected from the TIQ (for a complete description of personal cue elaboration see Martinelli et al., 2013b; Sperduti et al., 2013).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialSelf-citationThe amygdala and the relevance detection theory of autism: an evolutionary perspective
Zalla, T., & Sperduti, M. (2013) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00894 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
“Moreover, the self-relatedeness task activated regions that are well known to be responsible for self-referential processing (e.g., self-representation, semantic and episodic autobiographical memory retrieval; Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundSelf-citationHodgetts, C. J., Postans, M., Warne, N., Varnava, A., Lawrence, A. D., & Graham, K. S. (2017) · Cortex · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2017.05.010 · Cited by 79 · see citing works
“…this reflects the intrinsic processing of those regions, or wider network-level disruption (Collins et al., 2017; Shamy et al., 2010), particularly given that both episodic and semantic AM appear to engage larger brain networks in healthy controls (Levine et al., 2004; Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundInfluentialHuman hippocampal CA3 damage disrupts both recent and remote episodic memories
Miller, T. D., Chong, T. T. ‐., Davies, A. M. A., Johnson, M. R., Irani, S. R., Husain, M., Ng, T. W. C., Jacob, S., Maddison, P., Kennard, C., et al. (2020) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.41836 · Cited by 76 · see citing works
“…group compared to the control group (Supplementary file 1b), including nodes within regions identified with semantic autobiographical memory, such as the medial PFC, middle and inferior temporal regions (e.g., fusiform gyrus) (Addis et al., 2004b; Levine et al., 2004; Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundAutobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist
Grilli, M. D., & Sheldon, S. (2022) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.09.007 · Cited by 88 · see citing works
“…Alzheimer ’ s disease may affect both gist and speci fi c event memory representations early on [15], which is consistent with evidence of widespread pathology affecting both anterior and posterior hippocampal-cortical circuity in early to intermediate stages of the disease [110]. facts [55,56].”
BackgroundFalse belief and counterfactual reasoning in a social environment
Hoeck, N. V., Begtas, E., Steen, J., Kestemont, J., Vandekerckhove, M. M. P., & Overwalle, F. V. (2014) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.043 · Cited by 79 · see citing works
“This mentalizing network overlaps considerably with regions recruited during mental simulations of episodic events (including past, future and counterfactual episodic thinking), engaging an episodic memory network that comprises additional memoryrelated regions (including the hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and re…”
BackgroundThe MNESIS model: Memory systems and processes, identity and future thinking
Eustache, F., Viard, A., & Desgranges, B. (2016) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.05.006 · Cited by 81 · see citing works
The sequencing process generated by the cerebellum crucially contributes to social interactions
Overwalle, F. V., Manto, M. U., Leggio, M. G., & Delgado-Garcia, J. M. (2019) · Medical Hypotheses · doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2019.05.014 · Cited by 77 · see citing works
“An autobiographical network has also been identified in relation to various forms of self-representations [1] and partly overlaps with the mentalizing network.”
BackgroundZooming In and Out on One's Life: Autobiographical Representations at Multiple Time Scales
D’Argembeau, A. (2020) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01556 · Cited by 78 · see citing works
“Higher-order autobiographical knowledge—lifetime periods and general events—may be mainly represented in the anterior temporal lobe (Grilli, Bercel, Wank, & Rapcsak, 2018; Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundBellana, B., Liu, Z. ‐., Diamond, N. B., Grady, C. L., & Moscovitch, M. (2017) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.23445 · Cited by 75 · see citing works
“, 2015], future imagining [Benoit and Schacter, 2015], episodic retrieval [Kim, 2012; Martinelli et al., 2013; Sajonz et al., 2010; Foster et al., 2015] and other contexts where there is a focus on internal mentation rather than on externally oriented sensation [Christoff et al.”
BackgroundLearning in Infancy Is Active, Endogenously Motivated, and Depends on the Prefrontal Cortices
Raz, G., & Saxe, R. R. (2020) · Annual Review of Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121318-084841 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
“Self-relevant information is most likely to evoke responses in the middle portions of the medial PFC (Martinelli et al. 2012), while positively valenced stimuli evoke responses in both middle and ventral parts of the medial PFC (Bartra et al. 2013).”
BackgroundVentromedial prefrontal cortex, adding value to autobiographical memories
Lin, W., Horner, A. J., & Burgess, N. (2016) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/srep28630 · Cited by 70 · see citing works
Martinelli, P., Sperduti, M., Devauchelle, A.-D., Kalenzaga, S., Gallarda, T., Lion, S., Delhommeau, M., Anssens, A., Amado, I., Meder, J., et al. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082385 · Cited by 64 · see citing works
“Hence, when subtracting a non-self scene construction task (control task), which requires intentional access to long term declarative memory, and visual imagery like AM retrieval, the main activations concern a core network engaged in self-referential processing [24,62].”
BackgroundSelf-citationvan der Cruijsen, R., Peters, S., van der Aar, L. V. D., & Crone, E. (2017) · Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.11.005 · Cited by 65 · see citing works
Zhao, W., Yao, S., Li, Q., Geng, Y., Ma, X., Luo, L., Xu, L., & Kendrick, K. M. (2016) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.23190 · Cited by 65 · see citing works
“Several recent metaanalyses of mPFC activations have reported involvement of both dmPFC and vmPFC in self-referential processing [Amodio and Frith, 2006; Martinelli et al., 2013; Murray et al., 2012; van der Meer et al., 2010] and our findings are consistent with this, as well as demonstrating that OXT influences resp…”
ResultConcealed semantic and episodic autobiographical memory electrified
Ganis, G., & Schendan, H. E. (2013) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00354 · Cited by 66 · see citing works
“It is important to note that, although there may be distinct neural systems supporting EAM and SAM (e.g., Martinelli et al., 2012), most information in real life is often associated with both EAM and SAM, though with different relative strengths.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialImpact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions
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Associative Learning Beyond the Medial Temporal Lobe: Many Actors on the Memory Stage
Pergola, G., & Boris Suchan, A. (2013) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00162 · Cited by 65 · see citing works
“A recent meta-analysis on neural correlates of autobiographical memory highlighted the common participation of the thalamus, the RSC, the anterior cingulate, and the medial PFC in both episodic and semantic aspects of self-referenced memory (Martinelli et al., 2012).”
BackgroundEnhanced brain activity associated with memory access in highly superior autobiographical memory
Santangelo, V., Cavallina, C., Colucci, P., Santori, A., Macrı̀, S., McGaugh, J. L., & Campolongo, P. (2018) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1802730115 · Cited by 63 · see citing works
“Recent literature reported consistent activations of both the ventral and dorsal prefrontal cortex during the engagement of self-referential processes in AM retrieval (17).”
The paradox of fiction: Emotional response toward fiction and the modulatory role of self-relevance.
Sperduti, M., Arcangeli, M., Makowski, D., Wantzen, P., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Pelletier, J., & Piolino, P. (2016) · Acta Psychologica · doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.02.003 · Cited by 36 · see citing works
“…responsible for self-referential processing that are also activated during recollection of autobiographical memories (for a recent meta-analysis see Martinelli et al., 2013) modulates the response in limbic regions, eventually amplifying emotional response for self-relevant stimuli (Herbert et…”
BackgroundSelf-citationClassification of general and personal semantic details in the Autobiographical Interview
Renoult, L., Armson, M. J., Diamond, N. B., Fan, C. L., Jeyakumar, N., Levesque, L., Oliva, L., McKinnon, M. C., Papadopoulos, A., Selarka, D., et al. (2020) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107501 · Cited by 63 · see citing works
Semantic memory in developmental amnesia
Elward, R. L., & Vargha‐Khadem, F. (2018) · Neuroscience Letters · doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2018.04.040 · Cited by 59 · see citing works
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Prioritization of arbitrary faces associated to self: An EEG study
Wozniak, M. M., Kourtis, D., & Knoblich, G. (2018) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190679 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
Self, cortical midline structures and the resting state: Implications for Alzheimer’s disease
Weiler, M., Northoff, G., Damasceno, B. P., & Balthazar, M. L. F. (2016) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.05.028 · Cited by 58 · see citing works
‘Moments to be Had’: Understanding The Experience of Memorable Tourism Moments
Anaya, G. J., & Lehto, X. Y. (2022) · Tourism Management · doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104674 · Cited by 58 · see citing works
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Effects of prospective thinking on intertemporal choice: the role of familiarity
Sasse, L. K., Peters, J., Büchel, C., & Brassen, S. (2015) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.22912 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
“This cortical network has previously been implicated in representing distributed semantic and visuospatial features of consolidated autobiographical memories [Cabeza and St Jacques, 2007; Martinelli et al., 2013; Svoboda et al., 2006].”
BackgroundGrilli, M. D., & Verfaellie, M. H. (2015) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.12.023 · Cited by 56 · see citing works
“In their meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging research on personal memory, Martinelli et al. (2013) revealed that autobiographical fact retrieval in healthy adults was associated with a widely distributed neural network that includes anterior and posterior cortical midline structures, frontal…”
InfluentialMcCrory, E. J. P., Puetz, V. B., Maguire, E. A., Mechelli, A., Palmer, A. L., Gerin, M. I., Kelly, P. A., Koutoufa, I., & Viding, E. M. (2017) · The British Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.117.201798 · Cited by 61 · see citing works
Me, Myself and My Insula: An Oasis in the Forefront of Self-Consciousness
Tisserand, A., Philippi, N., Botzung, A., & Blanc, F. (2023) · Biology · doi:10.3390/biology12040599 · Cited by 35 · see citing works
Aging and wisdom: age-related changes in economic and social decision making
Lim, K. T. K., & Yu, R. (2015) · Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnagi.2015.00120 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
“Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that the default network regions such as medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate gyrus are implicated in the processing of self-relevant social information (Gusnard et al., 2001; Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundThe Neurobiology of Reduced Autobiographical Memory Specificity
Barry, T. J., Chiu, C. P., Raes, F., Ricarte, J. J., & Lau, H. C. (2018) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2018.09.001 · Cited by 55 · see citing works
Autonoesis and Belief in a Personal Past: An Evolutionary Theory of Episodic Memory Indices
Klein, S. B. (2014) · Review of Philosophy and Psychology · doi:10.1007/s13164-014-0181-8 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
“…as well as episodic memory can contain information about the temporal, spatial, and self-referential properties of a remembered experience (for recent reviews, see Klein et al. 1989; Klein and Gangi 2010; Klein and Lax 2010; Kopelman et al. 1989; Martinelli et al. 2013; Renoult et al. 2012).”
BackgroundDaviddi, S., Pedale, T., Jacques, P. L. S., Schacter, D. L., & Santangelo, V. (2023) · Cortex · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2023.03.005 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
Sameness and the self: philosophical and psychological considerations
Klein, S. B. (2014) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00029 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
“Before abandoning a memorial criterion, however, it is important to keep in mind that the self is represented in systems other than episodic memory (for reviews, see Klein, 2004; Gillihan and Farah, 2005; Klein and Gangi, 2010; Klein and Lax, 2010; Renoult et al., 2012; Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundNeural representations of the multidimensional self in the cortical midline structures
Feng, C., Yan, X., Huang, W., Han, S., & Ma, Y. (2018) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.08.018 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
Bréchet, L., Grivaz, P., Gauthier, B., & Blanke, O. (2018) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00270 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
Dissociable meta‐analytic brain networks contribute to coordinated emotional processing
Riedel, M. C., Yanes, J. A., Ray, K. L., Eickhoff, S. B., Fox, P. T., Sutherland, M. T., & Laird, A. R. (2018) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.24018 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
Development of MPFC function mediates shifts in self-protective behavior provoked by social feedback
Yoon, L., Somerville, L. H., & Kim, H. (2018) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05553-2 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
Skouras, S., Falcón, C., Tucholka, A., Rami, L., Sánchez‐Valle, R., Lladó, A., Gispert, J. D., & Molinuevo, J. L. (2019) · NeuroImage Clinical · doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101777 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
“This interpretation, is highly plausible because meta-analyses and scientific review articles show: a) the particular parts of MCC (posterior BA24) and ACC (BA32-BA22 intersection) to be involved in working memory (Wager and Smith, 2003); b) the PCC cluster (BA31; BA23) to be involved in self-autobiographical memory (…”
InfluentialPicard, L., Mayor-Dubois, C., Maeder, P. P., Kalenzaga, S., Abram, M., Duval, C., Eustache, F., Roulet‐Perez, E., & Piolino, P. (2012) · Cortex · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2012.10.003 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
Self-citationThe Development of Identity Fusion
Reese, E., & Whitehouse, H. (2021) · Perspectives on Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/1745691620968761 · Cited by 36 · see citing works
“Neuroscientists have identified distinct neural substrates of episodic and semantic memories (e.g., Addis & Tippett, 2008; for a meta-analysis, see Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundVerfaellie, M. H., Knoff, A. A. W., Reid, A. G., Race, E., & Keane, M. M. (2019) · Cortex · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2019.01.028 · Cited by 47 · see citing works
Demblon, J., Bahri, M. A., & D'Argembeau, A. (2016) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.062 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
“, 2009; Jefferies, 2013), as well as regions that might represent episodic details of specific events (hippocampus, retrosplenial cortex, precuneus, and visual cortex; Addis et al., 2004b; Daselaar et al., 2008; Martinelli et al., 2013).”
InfluentialWebb, C. A., Israel, E. S., Belleau, E. L., Appleman, L., Forbes, E. E., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2020) · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2020.03.010 · Cited by 46 · see citing works
“The mPFC, a core hub of the DMN, has been strongly implicated in mind-wandering and self-referential processing.(19,20) Consistent with metaanalytic evidence from functional neuroimaging studies indicating the involvement of the mPFC in mind-wandering,(19) inhibitory (ie, cathodal) transcranial direct current stimulat…”
BackgroundGrilli, M. D., Knoff, A. A. W., Bercel, J. J., & Ryan, L. (2018) · Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society · doi:10.1017/s1355617718000577 · Cited by 45 · see citing works
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective
Yang, Z.-Y., Wildschut, T., Izuma, K., Gu, R.-L., Luo, Y. L. L., Cai, H.-J., & Sedikides, C. (2022) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nsac036 · Cited by 44 · see citing works
“Indeed, a meta-analysis indicated that autobiographical memory and self-reflection activated the same region within the mPFC (Martinelli et al. , 2013).”
Supporting the self-concept with memory: insight from amnesia
Grilli, M. D., & Verfaellie, M. H. (2015) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nsv056 · Cited by 47 · see citing works
Name recognition in autism: EEG evidence of altered patterns of brain activity and connectivity
Nowicka, A., Cygan, H. B., Tacikowski, P., Ostaszewski, P., & Kuś, R. (2016) · Molecular Autism · doi:10.1186/s13229-016-0102-z · Cited by 42 · see citing works
“It has been also proposed that one’s own name is the core element of social identity and knowledge about oneself; our own name and surname define us as individuals among other people [24, 25].”
Morel, N., Villain, N., Rauchs, G., Gaubert, M., Piolino, P., Landeau, B., Mézenge, F., Desgranges, B., Eustache, F., & Chételat, G. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090488 · Cited by 42 · see citing works
“9 [9–20]).”
BackgroundSelf-citationvan der Cruijsen, R., Peters, S., Zoetendaal, K. P. M., Pfeifer, J. H., & Crone, E. A. (2019) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.05.001 · Cited by 41 · see citing works
“DLPFC activation might reflect semantic memory retrieval (Badre and Wagner, 2007; Martinelli et al., 2012; Thompson-Schill et al., 2005), or higher order cognitive functions such as self-regulation (Coutlee and Huettel, 2012; Sanfey et al., 2003).”
BackgroundWang, Y., Zhang, L., Kong, X., Hong, Y., Cheon, B. K., & Jia Liu, B. (2016) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.23273 · Cited by 41 · see citing works
“…evidence from meta-analyses converges to demonstrate the pivotal role of the hippocampus in memory and learning [K€uhn and Gallinat, 2014; Martinelli et al., 2013], atrophy of the hippocampus may consequently further prevent children in low-income families from higher achievement that…”
BackgroundAutobiographical memory in semantic dementia: New insights from two patients using fMRI
Viard, A., Desgranges, B., Matuszewski, V., Lebreton, K., Belliard, S., Sayette, V. D. L., Eustache, F., & Piolino, P. (2013) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.08.007 · Cited by 41 · see citing works
“…results in EP showed that the bilateral anterior hippocampi were functionally connected to the lateral temporal cortex, a region known for its role in semantic autobiographical memory (Svoboda et al., 2006; Martinelli et al., 2013) and construction of EAMs (Conway, 2001; Viard et al., 2007).”
BackgroundSelf-citationKalenzaga, S., Sperduti, M., Anssens, A., Martinelli, P., Devauchelle, A.-D., Gallarda, T., Delhommeau, M., Lion, S., Amado, I., Krebs, M., et al. (2015) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00449 · Cited by 40 · see citing works
“Keywords: self-reference effect, autobiographical memory, semantic memory, source memory, autonoetic consciousness, medial prefrontal cortex, aging”
BackgroundSelf-citationCorte, V. L., & Piolino, P. (2016) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00385 · Cited by 39 · see citing works
“PS is a complex system, which consists of different kinds of knowledge about the self, including personality traits and roles, personal beliefs and generic autobiographical facts (Martinelli et al., 2013; Grilli and Verfaellie, 2014).”
BackgroundSelf-citationSugiura, M., Mano, Y., Sasaki, A. T., & Sadato, N. (2010) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn.2010.21469 · Cited by 39 · see citing works
Morphological and Functional Differences between Athletes and Novices in Cortical Neuronal Networks
Tan, X., Pi, Y., Wang, J., Li, X., Zhang, L., Dai, W., Zhu, H., Ni, Z., Zhang, J., & Wu, Y. (2017) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00660 · Cited by 38 · see citing works
“We found greater connectivity between precuneus and medial prefrontal cortex in basketball players, supporting the functions of precuneus and the medial prefrontal cortex as the core nodes in default mode network (Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundSex Differences in the Neural Correlates of Specific and General Autobiographical Memory
Compère, L., Sperduti, M., Gallarda, T., Anssens, A., Lion, S., Delhommeau, M., Martinelli, P., Devauchelle, A.-D., Oppenheim, C., & Piolino, P. (2016) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00285 · Cited by 39 · see citing works
“…differences between individuals in memory retrieval of personal events (either specific or generic), but did not examine those differences in other aspects of SAM (e.g., factual personal knowledge) or more conceptual aspects of self (Conway, 2005; Klein et al., 2013; Martinelli et al., 2013b).”
BackgroundResultInfluentialSelf-citationEpisodic-like memory is preserved with age in cuttlefish
Schnell, A. K., Clayton, N. S., Hanlon, R. T., & Jozet-Alves, C. (2021) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.1052 · Cited by 36 · see citing works
“In humans, memory deterioration is most often associated with normal ageing and episodic memory is typically the earliest and most strikingly affected by ageing [10,12,60,61].”
Retrieval of Recent Autobiographical Memories is Associated with Slow-Wave Sleep in Early AD
Rauchs, G., Piolino, P., Bertran, F., Sayette, V. D. L., Viader, F., Eustache, F., & Desgranges, B. (2013) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00114 · Cited by 36 · see citing works
“…especially for the last month period (P3), confirming their altered capacity to recollect rich specific and unique personal episodes as reported in other studies conducted in Mild Cognitive Impairment (Tramoni et al., 2012) and in AD patients (Eustache et al., 2004; Martinelli et al., 2013b).”
BackgroundResultInfluentialSelf-citationThe shared and unique neural correlates of personal semantic, general semantic, and episodic memory
Tanguay, A. F. N., Palombo, D. J., Love, B., Glikstein, R. S., Davidson, P. S. R., & Renoult, L. (2023) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.83645 · Cited by 42 · see citing works
A theory of the neural mechanisms underlying negative cognitive bias in major depression
Jiang, Y. (2024) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1348474 · Cited by 38 · see citing works
Coronel, J. C., & Federmeier, K. D. (2016) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.01.029 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
“…contextual details during encoding (e.g., perceptual, spatial, temporal information, etc.; similar to episodic memories) or are relatively abstract or conceptbased (i.e., not associated with a specific encoding context; similar to general semantic memory) (Conway, 2005; Martinelli et al., 2013).”
BackgroundGrounding the neuroscience of behavior change in the sociocultural context
Tompson, S., Lieberman, M. D., & Falk, E. B. (2015) · Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.07.004 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
Neural correlates of evaluating self and close-other in physical, academic and prosocial domains
van der Cruijsen, R., Peters, S., & Crone, E. A. (2017) · Brain and Cognition · doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2017.07.008 · Cited by 35 · see citing works
The neural basis of temporal order processing in past and future thought
D'Argembeau, A., Jeunehomme, O., Majerus, S., Bastin, C., & Salmon, E. (2015) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00680 · Cited by 32 · see citing works
Beyond the episodic–semantic continuum: the multidimensional model of mental representations
Addis, D. R., & Szpunar, K. K. (2024) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2023.0408 · Cited by 33 · see citing works
“This demarcation enabled a direct mapping between the Self-Memory System and Tulving’s episodic–semantic distinction that is prominent in the autobiographical memory literature (e.g. [26,27]).”
Background
- Authors
- Martinelli, P., Sperduti, M., & Piolino, P.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Université Paris Descartes (FR)
- Venue
- Human Brain Mapping
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-02-22
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1515-1529
- ISSN
- 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0193
- PMC
- PMC6870171
- OpenAlex
- W2053763916
- Semantic Scholar
- e924f10a0ff16f721ab0caa7589dfada2b5982d1
- Cited by
- 281
- References
- 114
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 3.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- self-memory, self-representation, episodic autobiographical memory, personal identity, neural correlates, medial prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, limbic system, levels of abstraction, activation likelihood estimation
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Brain Mapping, Ego, Humans, Memory, Likelihood Functions, PubMed, Neuroimaging
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