The generation effect: Activating broad neural circuits during memory encoding

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1901-1909

  Rosner, Zachary A ^a   Elman, Jeremy A ^a   Shimamura, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Encoding; FMRI; Generation effect; Memory; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERATION EFFECT; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; LATERAL OCCIPITAL CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; READING; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; WASTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; COHORT EFFECT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879464624     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.09.009     Document Type: Article

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