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Neural reactivation in parietal cortex enhances memory for episodically linked information
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posted on 2023-09-01, 14:25 authored by Tanya R. Jonker, Halle Dimsdale-Zucker, Maureen Ritchey, Alex Clarke, Charan RanganathRemembering is a complex process that involves recalling specific details, such as who you were with when you celebrated your last birthday, as well as contextual information, such as the place where you celebrated. It is well established that the act of remembering enhances long-term retention of the retrieved information, but the neural and cognitive mechanisms that drive memory enhancement are not yet understood. One possibility is that the process of remembering results in reactivation of the broader episodic context. Consistent with this idea, in two experiments, we found that multiple retrieval attempts enhanced long-term retention of both the retrieved object and the nontarget object that shared scene context, compared with a restudy control. Using representational similarity analysis of fMRI data in experiment 2, we found that retrieval resulted in greater neural reactivation of both the target objects and contextually linked objects compared with restudy. Furthermore, this reactivation occurred in a network of medial and lateral parietal lobe regions that have been linked to episodic recollection. The results demonstrate that retrieving a memory can enhance retention of information that is linked in the broader event context and the hippocampus and a posterior medial network of parietal cortical areas (also known as the Default Network) play complementary roles in supporting the reactivation of episodically linked information during retrieval.
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115Issue number
43Page range
11084-11089Publication title
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesISSN
1091-6490External DOI
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National Academy of SciencesFile version
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- eng
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2019-01-17Legacy Faculty/School/Department
Faculty of Science & EngineeringNote
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