Research article summary (published 21 Sep 2009):

Left parietal cortex is modulated by amount of recollected verbal information.

Full Abstract

In two earlier experiments, we reported that left parietal cortex activity covaried with the amount of pictorial information recollected. The present experiment addressed the question whether our earlier results would generalize to verbal materials. Participants studied a series of word pairs and were then tested on individual old and new words in a modified remember/know task. In this task, participants were required to indicate whether recollection was accompanied by retrieval of study pairmates or not. As before, we operationally defined 'amount recollected' as the contrast between these two types of remember response. We found that the same left parietal region previously identified as sensitive to amount of recollected pictorial information is also sensitive to amount of recollected verbal information.

Author information

Author/s: Vilberg, Kaia L (KL); Rugg, Michael D (MD);

Affiliation: Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-3800, USA. kvilberg(-atsign-)uci.edu

Grants: 5R01MH072966-02 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Journal: Neuroreport (Neuroreport), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Sep; vol 20 (issue 14) : pp 1295-9

Dates: Created 2009/09/02; Completed 2009/10/30; Revised 2009/11/03;

PMID: 19668014, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/4/2009, IMS Date: )

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Acoustic Stimulation Adolescent Adult Analysis of Variance Brain - physiology Brain Mapping Female Functional Laterality Humans Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Mental Recall - physiology Neuropsychological Tests Parietal Lobe - physiology Reaction Time Recognition (Psychology) - physiology Speech Speech Perception - physiology Young Adult

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