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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-6-1
pubmed:abstractText
Although functional neuroimaging studies have supported the distinction between explicit and implicit forms of memory, few have matched explicit and implicit tests closely, and most of these tested perceptual rather than conceptual implicit memory. We compared event-related fMRI responses during an intentional test, in which a group of participants used a cue word to recall its associate from a prior study phase, with those in an incidental test, in which a different group of participants used the same cue to produce the first associate that came to mind. Both semantic relative to phonemic processing at study, and emotional relative to neutral word pairs, increased target completions in the intentional test, but not in the incidental test, suggesting that behavioral performance in the incidental test was not contaminated by voluntary explicit retrieval. We isolated the neural correlates of successful retrieval by contrasting fMRI responses to studied versus unstudied cues for which the equivalent "target" associate was produced. By comparing the difference in this repetition-related contrast across the intentional and incidental tests, we could identify the correlates of voluntary explicit retrieval. This contrast revealed increased bilateral hippocampal responses in the intentional test, but decreased hippocampal responses in the incidental test. A similar pattern in the bilateral amygdale was further modulated by the emotionality of the word pairs, although surprisingly only in the incidental test. Parietal regions, however, showed increased repetition-related responses in both tests. These results suggest that the neural correlates of successful voluntary explicit memory differ in directionality, even if not in location, from the neural correlates of successful involuntary implicit (or explicit) memory, even when the incidental test taps conceptual processes.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1530-8898
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1935-51
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Amygdala, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Association Learning, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Brain Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Emotions, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Intention, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Male, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Mental Recall, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Oxygen, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Parietal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Phonetics, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Photic Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Semantics, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Vocabulary, pubmed-meshheading:20807058-Young Adult
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Voluntary explicit versus involuntary conceptual memory are associated with dissociable fMRI responses in hippocampus, amygdala, and parietal cortex for emotional and neutral word pairs.
pubmed:affiliation
MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. cristina.ramponi@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't