Scenes unseen: The parahippocampal cortex intrinsically subserves contextual associations, not scenes or places per se

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 8539-8544

  Bar, Moshe ^a   Aminoff, Elissa ^a,b   Schacter, Daniel L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associations; Context; fMRI; Parahippocampal cortex; PPA; Scenes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SUBICULUM;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 51649085887     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0987-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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