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Anterior hippocampus: the anatomy of perception, imagination and episodic memory

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Zeidman, Peter, Maguire, Eleanor A.·2016·Nature Reviews Neuroscience

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The brain creates a model of the world around us. We can use this representation to perceive and comprehend what we see at any given moment, but also to vividly re-experience scenes from our past and imagine future (or even fanciful) scenarios. Recent work has shown that these cognitive functions--perception, imagination and recall of scenes and events--all engage the anterior hippocampus. In this Opinion article, we capitalize on new findings from functional neuroimaging to propose a model that links high-level cognitive functions to specific structures within the anterior hippocampus.

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  • Other fMRI studies have linked hippocampal activity during imagining to scene construction, encoding of episodic simulations into long-term memory, and detail recombination.

    “Other fMRI studies have linked hippocampal activity during imagining to the process of scene construction (61–62), encoding of episodic simulations into long-term memory (63), and detail recombination (64).”

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  • Questions about the precise role of the hippocampus in episodic future thinking continue to be debated, with evidence suggesting different hippocampal subregions make distinct contributions to particular subprocesses.

    “questions concerning the precise role of the hippocampus in episodic future thinking continue to be debated, with the evidence suggesting that different subregions of the hippocampus make distinct contributions to particular subprocesses that comprise episodic future thinking and related phenomena (59–60, 62).”

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Authors
Zeidman, P., & Maguire, E. A.
Affiliations
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
Corresponding author
Maguire, Eleanor A.
Venue
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Published
2016-02-11
Volume
17
Issue
3
Pages
173-182
ISSN
  • 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-0048
OpenAlex
W2269022733
Cited by
542
References
130
Citations by year
2026: 33 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 67 · 2023: 61 · 2022: 54 · 2021: 52 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 62 · 2018: 50 · 2017: 45 · 2016: 10
FWCI
5.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature reviews. Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
Wellcome Trust (091593, 101759)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
Keywords
anterior hippocampus, perception, imagination, episodic memory, scene memory, cognitive mapping, functional neuroimaging, hippocampal subfields
MeSH terms
Animals, Hippocampus, Humans, Imagination, Perception, Memory, Episodic

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