Brain regions involved in the retrieval of spatial and episodic details associated with a familiar environment: An fMRI study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3094-3106

  Hirshhorn, Marnie ^a,b   Grady, Cheryl ^a,b   Rosenbaum, R Shayna ^b,d   Winocur, Gordon ^a,b,e   Moscovitch, Morris ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Hippocampus; Neocortex; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL CORTEX; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; RIGHT ANTERIOR HIPPOCAMPUS; RIGHT POSTERIOR HIPPOCAMPUS; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; THEORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84868300153     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.08.008     Document Type: Article

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