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CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 322-334Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/11.4.322
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD14959] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH01225] Funding Source: Medline
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Subjects studied pictures of common objects outlined in either red or green and were asked to memorize the objects and their associated colors. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during subsequent inclusion (i.e. item) and exclusion (i.e, source) memory tasks. The main goal of the experiment was to determine if brain signatures for familiarity and recollection, two behavioral processes thought to account for episodic memory performance, would be observed in the pattern of ERP results. For correctly recognized items, early, posterior old/new effects were recorded (similar to 300-600 ms) that did not differ in magnitude or scalp distribution between item and source memory tasks. A subsequent long-duration occipitally focused negativity (similar to 800 ms peak) was evident in the source hut not the item memory task. The ERPs associated with 'source errors' in the source memory task also showed robust early old/new effects. However, 'source error' ERPs lacked frontal scalp activity compared to those associated with correct source attribution. The data suggest that a recollective response may require frontal involvement whereas a decision based on familiarity may not.
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