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What does the retrosplenial cortex do?
Abstract
The past decade has seen a transformation in research on the retrosplenial cortex (RSC). This cortical area has emerged as a key member of a core network of brain regions that underpins a range of cognitive functions, including episodic memory, navigation, imagination and planning for the future. It is now also evident that the RSC is consistently compromised in the most common neurological disorders that impair memory. Here we review advances on multiple fronts, most notably in neuroanatomy, animal studies and neuroimaging, that have highlighted the importance of the RSC for cognition, and consider why specifying its precise functions remains problematic.
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“This outcome is to be expected as both retrosplenial damage and hippocampal damage can cause anterograde amnesia (Spiers et al., 2001; Valenstein et al., 1987; Vann et al., 2009)”
From The cingulum bundle: Anatomy, function, and dysfunction (2018) · cites this paper as Vann et al., 2009
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“This region has been previously implicated in spatial navigation13, 22 and spatial memory14, 23.”
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“Much recent interest has focused on the striking overlap among brain regions involved in the retrieval of autobiographical memories, the imagination of novel events, and navigation14, 47, 48.”
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“Retrosplenial cortex is thought to support integration and translation between egocentric spatial representations in posterior parietal cortex and allocentric spatial representations in the MTL (71), and these processes are recruited to a greater extent when spatial context needs to be updated and manipulated (72).”
From Neural mechanisms of reactivation-induced updating that enhance and distort memory (2013) · cites this paper as [72]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Vann, S. D., Aggleton, J. P., & Maguire, E. A.
- Affiliations
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Vann, Seralynne D.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Published
- 2009-10-08
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 792-802
- ISSN
- 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0048
- OpenAlex
- W1991490575
- Cited by
- 1,409
- References
- 144
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (acceptedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (084218)
- National Institutes of Health
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/D002001/1, BB/B501955/1)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- retrosplenial cortex, episodic memory, spatial navigation, scene construction, perspective taking, memory disorders, cognitive function, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, animal studies
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Gyrus Cinguli, Humans, Nerve Net, Anterior Thalamic Nuclei
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