Specific role of medial prefrontal cortex in retrieving recent autobiographical memories: An fMRI study of young female subjects

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-39

  Oddo, Silvia ^a,b   Lux, Silke ^c,d   Weiss, Peter H ^c,d   Schwab, Anna ^e   Welzer, Harald ^e   Markowitsch, Hans J ^a   Fink, Gereon R ^c,d,f  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^e Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Emotion; Medial prefrontal cortex; Perspective; Retrosplenial cortex; Self; Semantic memory; Temporal cortex; Time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70649093723     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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