Journal
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
Volume 43, Issue 6, Pages 847-859Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.09.014
Keywords
fMRI; encoding; neuroimaging; subsequent memory; false memory; partial memory
Funding
- NIA NIH HHS [AG08441] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH60941] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH060941] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R01AG008441, R37AG008441] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Recognition of an object can be based on memory for specific details of a prior encounter with the object, or on a more general memory for the type of object previously encountered. Responding on the basis of general information alone can sometimes produce memory errors involving both distortion and forgetting, but little is known about the neural origins of general versus specific recognition. We extended the standard subsequent memory paradigm to examine whether neural activity at encoding predicts whether an object will subsequently elicit specific as compared to general memory. During event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), participants viewed objects and made size judgments about them. Later, they viewed same, similar, and new objects, labeling each as same, similar, or new. Specific recognition was indicated by a same response to a same object. By contrast, general, non-specific recognition was indicated by either a same response to a similar object (false memory) or a similar response to a same object (partial memory). As predicted, specific recognition, as compared to non-specific recognition, was associated with encoding-related activity in the right fusiform cortex, while non-specific recognition, as compared to forgetting, was associated with encoding-related activity in the left fusiform cortex. Furthermore, all successful recognition (specific and general), as compared to forgetting, was associated with encoding-related activity in bilateral fusiform cortex. These results suggest that the right fusiform cortex is associated with specific feature encoding, while the left fusiform cortex is involved in more general object encoding. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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