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CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages 1155-1161Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh215
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amygdala; functional MRI; multidimensional scaling; prefrontal cortex; scripts
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Humans are capable of storing and retrieving sequences of complex structured events. Here we report a study in which we establish the psychological structure of event knowledge and then use parametric event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify its neural correlates. We demonstrate that event knowledge is organized along dissociable dimensions that are reflected in distinctive patterns of neural activation: social valence (amygdala and right orbitofrontal cortex), experience (medial prefrontal cortex) and engagement (left orbitofrontal cortex). Our study affirms the importance and uniqueness of the human prefrontal cortex in representing event knowledge.
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