CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 534Memory Processes and InfluencesCognitive Functions and MemoryMemory and Neural Mechanisms

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 174 of the 174 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Top-down and bottom-up attention to memory: A hypothesis (AtoM) on the role of the posterior parietal cortex in memory retrieval

Ciaramelli, Elisa, Grady, Cheryl L., Moscovitch, Morris·2008·Neuropsychologia
DOI 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.03.022
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Recent neuroimaging studies have implicated the posterior parietal cortex in episodic memory retrieval, but there is uncertainty about its specific role. Research in the attentional domain has shown that superior parietal lobe (SPL) regions along the intraparietal sulcus are implicated in the voluntary orienting of attention to relevant aspects of the environment, whereas inferior parietal lobe (IPL) regions at the temporo-parietal junction mediate the automatic allocation of attention to task-relevant information. Here we propose that the SPL and the IPL play conceptually similar roles in episodic memory retrieval. We hypothesize that the SPL allocates top-down attention to memory retrieval, whereas the IPL mediates the automatic, bottom-up attentional capture by retrieved memory contents. By reviewing the existing fMRI literature, we show that the posterior intraparietal sulcus of SPL is consistently active when the need for top-down assistance to memory retrieval is supposedly maximal, e.g., for memories retrieved with low vs. high confidence, for familiar vs. recollected memories, for recognition of high vs. low frequency words. On the other hand, the supramarginal gyrus of IPL is consistently active when the attentional capture by memory contents is supposedly maximal, i.e., for strong vs. weak memories, for vividly recollected vs. familiar memories, for memories retrieved with high vs. low confidence. We introduce a model of episodic memory retrieval that characterizes contributions of posterior parietal cortex.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.03.022

Cites

174 of 174 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Show all 174 references

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 534

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Ciaramelli, E., Grady, C. L., & Moscovitch, M.
Affiliations
  • Rotman Research Institute (CA)
  • University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Ciaramelli, Elisa
ORCID
Venue
Neuropsychologia
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-06
Volume
46
Issue
7
Pages
1828-1851
ISSN
0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.03.022
OpenAlex
W2036591015
Cited by
534
References
174
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 42 · 2014: 31 · 2013: 39 · 2012: 44
FWCI
2.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
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
posterior parietal cortex, episodic memory retrieval, top-down attention, bottom-up attention, attentional capture, superior parietal lobule, inferior parietal lobule, intraparietal sulcus, supramarginal gyrus, temporoparietal junction, memory confidence, recollection, familiarity, memory vividness, memory strength, atomic models
MeSH terms
Attention, Brain Mapping, Cognition, Cues, Decision Making, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory, Models, Neurological, Neural Pathways, Parietal Lobe, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Mental Recall, Temporal Lobe, Verbal Behavior, Recognition, Psychology

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Top-down and bottom-up attention to memory: A hypothesis (AtoM) on the role of the posterior parietal cortex in memory retrieval. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.03.022
The paper
Ciaramelli, E., Grady, C. L., & Moscovitch, M. (2008). Top-down and bottom-up attention to memory: A hypothesis (AtoM) on the role of the posterior parietal cortex in memory retrieval. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.03.022