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Making Memories: Brain Activity that Predicts How Well Visual Experience Will Be Remembered

Brewer, James B., Zhao, Zuo, Desmond, John E., Glover, Gary H., Gabrieli, John D. E.·1998·Science

Abstract

Experiences are remembered or forgotten, but the neural determinants for the mnemonic fate of experience are unknown. Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to identify specific brain activations that differentiated between visual experiences that were later remembered well, remembered less well, or forgotten. During scanning of medial temporal lobe and frontal lobe regions, subjects viewed complex, color photographs. Subjects later received a test of memory for the photographs. The magnitudes of focal activations in right prefrontal cortex and in bilateral parahippocampal cortex predicted which photographs were later remembered well, remembered less well, or forgotten.

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Authors
Brewer, J. B., Zhao, Z., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E.
Venue
Science
Published
1998-08-21
Volume
281
Issue
5380
Pages
1185-1187
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
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W2062787021
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1,108
References
29
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30.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
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