The functional neuroanatomy of odor evoked autobiographical memories cued by odors and words

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 123-131

  Arshamian, Artin ^a,b   Iannilli, Emilia ^a   Gerber, Johannes C ^a   Willander, Johan ^b,c   Persson, Jonas ^b   Seo, Han Seok ^a   Hummel, Thomas ^a   Larsson, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cross modal reactivation; Episodic memory; Fmri; Imagery; Memory retrieval; Multiple trace theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ODOR; PARIETAL LOBE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SMELLING; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871014084     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.10.023     Document Type: Article

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