Episodic Memory and Beyond: The Hippocampus and Neocortex in Transformation

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“In mammals, allocentric navigation is thought to involve the operation of an extended cortico-hippocampal network that conveys highly processed visual and multisensory information to the hippocampal circuits for further processing and transformation into “world-centered” relational spatial representations [74,76,79,188,189,190,191,192].”

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“These cortical nodes appear to be associated with different aspects of episodic memory: the PCC with autobiographical recall, RSC with spatial navigation, mPFC with regulation of memory encoding and recall, and the AG with elaboration of the contents of memory.”

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“Studies on this topic have indicated that episodic memory may be recruited for additional tasks where particular details of past experiences are leveraged to generate, or assemble and maintain, mental content that incorporates specific elements of prior events.”

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“Strikingly, during the past decade, episodic memory, and the neural processes that support it, have been found to be engaged during tasks beyond simple remembering that may also involve the retrieval and reconstruction of episodic details for completion, such as future thinking or simulation, decision making, and problem solving (for review, see Schacter et al. 2012;Moscovitch et al. 2016;Schacter”

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“Recent conceptual work has suggested that engagement of the hippocampus (and core network more broadly) is exhibited during generative tasks that nominally involve the retrieval and reconstruction of episodic details for completion, such as simulation, decision making, and problem solving”

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“the collective results reported here converge on the idea that the boundary conditions and neural expressions of a constructive episodic memory system lie beyond simple remembering”

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“First, episodic memories depend on many brain regions for their creation and persistence.”

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“According to the hippocampal indexing theory [69], an encoding of an episode in the hippocampus serves as a kind of index that points to and binds together representations in the neocortex that form the basis of the episode, such as multimodal sensory representations along with associated emotional and conceptual information [70].”

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“Moreover, the typical delay for hippocampal consolidation processes starts at approximately one hour (for shorter delays it may rather relate to short-term memory, relying distinct mechanisms) [128–131].”