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Laboratory-based and autobiographical retrieval tasks differ substantially in their neural substrates
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In designing experiments to investigate retrieval of event memory, researchers choose between utilizing laboratory-based methods (in which to-be-remembered materials are presented to participants) and autobiographical approaches (in which the to-be-remembered materials are events from the participant's pre-experimental life). In practice, most laboratory studies have utilized old/new recognition memory, and most autobiographical memory studies have used the Galton-Crovitz word cueing technique [Crovitz, H.F., & Schiffman, H. (1974). Frequency of episodic memories as a function of their age. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 4, 517-518]. What are the implications of these methodological choices for understanding the component processes and underlying neural substrates of memory retrieval? An Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) meta-analysis procedure [Turkeltaub, P., Eden, G., Jones, K., & Zeffiro, TA. (2002). Meta-analysis of the functional neuroanatomy of single-word reading: Method and validation. NeuroImage, 16, 765-780] was used to construct two whole-brain statistical maps: one showing brain regions that are consistently implicated when the task utilized is old/new recognition memory and one showing regions that tend to emerge when autobiographical event memory is queried. A comparison of the two maps shows very few regions of overlap. This basic methodological choice has a profound impact on the conclusions reached regarding human memory retrieval and its neural substrates.
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Metadata
- Authors
- McDermott, K. B., Szpunar, K. K., & Christ, S. E.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Corresponding author
- McDermott, Kathleen B.
- Venue
- Neuropsychologia
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-09
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 2290-2298
- ISSN
- 0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1990300812
- Cited by
- 253
- References
- 43
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- FWCI
- 4.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Keywords
- memory retrieval, autobiographical memory, event memory, neural substrates of memory, brain regions, episodic memory
- MeSH terms
- Autobiographies as Topic, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cues, Diagnostic Imaging, Humans, Neuropsychological Tests, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Mental Recall, MEDLINE, Clinical Laboratory Techniques, Recognition, Psychology
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