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| Neuropsychologia Anterior prefrontal cortex and the recollection contextual information Jon Simons Adrian Owen Paul Fletcher Paul Burgess Institute Cognitive Neuroscience Department Psychology University College London Queen Square London b MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Chaucer Road Cambridge Brain Mapping Unit Box Department Psychiatry University Cambridge Addenbrooke Hospital Hills Road Cambridge Received July received revised form January accepted February Available online March Abstract Recollective memory can involve the retrieval many different kinds contextual information including where and when event took place well our thoughts and feelings the time The brain regions associated with this ability were examined event related fMRI experiment where participants made decisions about words famous faces which were presented either the left right monitor screen Subsequently the studied words and faces were again presented and participants underwent fMRI brain scanning while recollecting either which the decisions they had made each item task memory whether had been presented the left right the screen position memory functional dissociation was observed within anterior prefrontal cortex principally Brodmann area with activation lateral regions associated with remembering either type information relative baseline and medial anterior PFC region showing significantly greater activation during the task memory conditions These results suggest different roles for lateral a | |||||||||
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