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The mind's eye – precuneus activation in memory-related imagery
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We examined brain activity associated with visual imagery at episodic memory retrieval using positron emission tomography (PET). Twelve measurements of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were taken in six right-handed, healthy, male volunteers. During six measurements, they were engaged in the cued recall of imageable verbal paired associates. During the other six measurements, they recalled nonimageable paired associates. Memory performance was equalized across all word lists. The subjects' use of an increased degree of visual imagery during the recall of imageable paired associates was confirmed using subjective rating scales after each scan. Memory-related imagery was associated with significant activation of a medial parietal area, the precuneus. This finding confirms a previously stated hypothesis about the precuneus and provides strong evidence that it is a key part of the neural substate of visual imagery occurring in conscious memory recall.
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“The involvement of the precuneus could potentially be explained by the generation of mental images (Fletcher et al., 1995) of objects from memory as a substitute for insufficient visual information.”
Visuospatial Integration: Paleoanthropological and Archaeological Perspectives
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“…its actual biological background or neural substrate, is visuospatial in nature, largely self-centered, and based on spatial and chronological managements crucially coordinated by the precuneus (visual imagery; see Fletcher et al. 1995), that represent a functional bridge between body and vision.”
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“The precuneus, the superior parietal cortex and occipital regions have been claimed to be related to visual mental imagery [Cui et al., 2007; Fletcher et al., 1995; Gardini et al., 2006; Ishai et al., 2000].”
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“This is roughly a reversal of what happens in perception [as James (1890/1981) was among the first to suggest], where information received in the visual areas of the occipital lobe is projected to visual association areas. The candle, meanwhile, does not simply ‘appear to’ the participant. He is ‘bringing it to mind’,…”
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“previously been reported by several studies on visual imagery (Fletcher et al. 1995; Ishai et al. 2000; Mechelli et al. 2004; see for a review Cavanna and Trimble 2006).”
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“The precuneus was reported to be correlated with ratings of vividness (Gilboa et al., 2004) and play a key role in visual imagery processing in episodic memory recall (Fletcher et al., 1995; Cabeza and St Jacques, 2007).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fletcher, P. C., Frith, C. D., Baker, S. C., Shallice, T., Frackowiak, R. S. J., & Dolan, R. J.
- Affiliations
- The Royal Free Hospital (GB)
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1995-09
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 195-200
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1966326035
- Cited by
- 680
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 8.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- SDL (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- precuneus, visual imagery, episodic memory retrieval, paired associates, imageability, medial parietal cortex, regional cerebral blood flow
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attention, Brain Mapping, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Imagination, Male, Paired-Associate Learning, Parietal Lobe, Mental Recall, Reference Values, Regional Blood Flow, Tomography, Emission-Computed, Visual Perception
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