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Remembering the past and imagining the future in the elderlyDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, USA
Gerontology 59:143-51. 2013..We conclude by considering a number of questions and challenges concerning the interpretation of age-related changes in remembering and imagining, as well as functional implications of this research for everyday concerns of older adults...
Memory and law: what can cognitive neuroscience contribute?Daniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Nat Neurosci 16:119-23. 2013..We also discuss neuroscience research concerning false and imagined memories, misinformation effects and reconsolidation phenomena that may enhance understanding of why memory does not operate like a video recording...- The future of memory: remembering, imagining, and the brainDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuron 76:677-94. 2012..This growing area of research has broadened our conception of memory by highlighting the many ways in which memory supports adaptive functioning... - Constructive memory: past and futureDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA
Dialogues Clin Neurosci 14:7-18. 2012..The article delineates the theoretical implications of relevant research, and also considers some clinical and applied implications... - Memory distortion: an adaptive perspectiveDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 15:467-74. 2011..We also discuss new evidence concerning factors that can influence the occurrence of memory distortions, such as sleep and retrieval conditions, as well as conceptual issues related to the development of an adaptive perspective... - On the nature of medial temporal lobe contributions to the constructive simulation of future eventsDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1245-53. 2009..This paper focuses on the role of two MTL regions--the hippocampus and parahippocampal cortex--in thinking about the future and building mental simulations... - Episodic simulation of future events: concepts, data, and applicationsDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1124:39-60. 2008..These processes together comprise what we have termed "the prospective brain," whose primary function is to use past experiences to anticipate future events... - Policy forum: studying eyewitness investigations in the fieldDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Law Hum Behav 32:3-5. 2008..We explain why the confound has severe consequences for assessing the real-world implications of this study... 
Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brainDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 8:657-61. 2007..We suggest that processes such as memory can be productively re-conceptualized in light of this idea...- The cognitive neuroscience of memory distortionDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuron 44:149-60. 2004..Evidence from neuropsychology, neuroimaging, and electrophysiology implicates the prefrontal cortex in retrieval monitoring that can limit the rate of false recognition... - Specificity of priming: a cognitive neuroscience perspectiveDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 5:853-62. 2004..We consider empirical, methodological and conceptual issues that relate to each type of specificity, and suggest a theoretical perspective to help in guiding future research... - The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the futureDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 362:773-86. 2007.... - Reductions in cortical activity during primingDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02138, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 17:171-6. 2007..On the basis of these recent studies, we suggest that the reduction in cortical activity during priming involves at least two different mechanisms... - The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memoryD L Schacter
Harvard University, Psychology Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 49:289-318. 1998..The framework is applied to findings from four different areas of research: cognitive studies of young adults, neuropsychological investigations of brain-damaged patients, neuroimaging studies, and studies of cognitive aging... - Can cognitive neuroscience illuminate the nature of traumatic childhood memories?D L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 6:207-14. 1996.... - False recollection induced by photographs: a comparison of older and younger adultsD L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Psychol Aging 12:203-15. 1997..False recollection induced by photo review appears to reflect an age-related deficit in source-monitoring abilities... - When true recognition suppresses false recognition: evidence from amnesic patientsD L Schacter
Harvard University, Department of Psychology, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 10:668-79. 1998..Consideration of signal detection analyses and differences between the two types of amnesic patients provides insight into how mechanisms of veridical episodic memory can be used to suppress false recognition... - Medial temporal lobe activations in fMRI and PET studies of episodic encoding and retrievalD L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Hippocampus 9:7-24. 1999..However, PET studies have reported anterior MTL encoding activations more frequently than have fMRI studies. We consider possible sources of these differences... - The seven sins of memory. Insights from psychology and cognitive neuroscienceD L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Am Psychol 54:182-203. 1999..Although the 7 sins may appear to reflect flaws in system design, it is argued instead that they are by-products of otherwise adaptive features of memory... - Medial temporal lobe activation during episodic encoding and retrieval: a PET studyD L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Hippocampus 9:575-81. 1999..Direct comparisons revealed greater blood flow increases in posterior MTL during encoding than retrieval... - Misattribution, false recognition and the sins of memoryD L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 356:1385-93. 2001..Finally, we argue that even though misattribution and other memory sins are annoying and even dangerous, they can also be viewed as by-products of adaptive features of memory... - Neural processes supporting young and older adults' emotional memoriesElizabeth A Kensinger
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:1161-73. 2008.... - Understanding metamemory: neural correlates of the cognitive process and subjective level of confidence in recognition memoryElizabeth F Chua
Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neuroimage 29:1150-60. 2006.... - Rapid response learning in amnesia: delineating associative learning components in repetition primingDavid M Schnyer
Memory Disorders Research Center, Boston VA Healthcare System, Boston University School of Medicine, 150 South Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02130 4817, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:140-9. 2006..With repeated exposure, behavioral facilitation rapidly comes to reflect a more efficient response learning mechanism rather than facilitated access to object knowledge... - Fronto-hippocampal function during temporal context monitoring in schizophreniaAnthony P Weiss
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02129, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:1268-77. 2006..Given the importance of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (PFC) in this type of memory, we hypothesized that this cognitive deficit stemmed from aberrant fronto-hippocampal activation during memory retrieval... - Neural mechanisms of visual object priming: evidence for perceptual and semantic distinctions in fusiform cortexJon S Simons
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuroimage 19:613-26. 2003..The results are consistent with the view that the right fusiform plays a greater role in processing specific visual form information about objects, whereas the left fusiform is also involved in lexical/semantic processing... - The nature of memory related activity in early visual areasScott D Slotnick
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:2874-86. 2006..The results of these experiments provide convergent evidence that memory related early visual area activity (BA17, BA18) can reflect nonconscious processing... - Remembering the specific visual details of presented objects: neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotionElizabeth A Kensinger
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:2951-62. 2007..Rather, limbic engagement appears to relate specifically to the successful recognition of information... - Patients with mild Alzheimer's disease attribute conceptual fluency to prior experienceDavid A Wolk
Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:1662-72. 2005..These findings suggest that patients with mild AD are able to use conceptual fluency in their recognition judgments and the neural mechanisms supporting such processing is maintained... - Metacognition and false recognition in patients with frontal lobe lesions: the distinctiveness heuristicAndrew E Budson
Department of Neurology 4 18F, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:860-71. 2005..The authors suggest that the distinctiveness heuristic is a metacognitive strategy, dependent upon the frontal lobes, that may be engaged by healthy individuals to reduce their false recognition... - Overdependence on degraded gist memory in Alzheimer's diseaseDavid A Gallo
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Neuropsychology 20:625-32. 2006..We propose that the overdependence on degraded gist memory in AD is caused by even larger impairments in item-specific recollections... - Comparing source-based and gist-based false recognition in aging and Alzheimer's diseaseBenton H Pierce
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, MA, US
Neuropsychology 19:411-9. 2005..In contrast, false recognition in AD patients actually increased following the deep processing task, suggesting that they were unable to use recollection to oppose familiarity arising from incidental presentation... - Prefrontal activity and diagnostic monitoring of memory retrieval: FMRI of the criterial recollection taskDavid A Gallo
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 18:135-48. 2006..These findings indicate that reducing false recognition via the distinctiveness heuristic is not heavily dependent on frontally mediated postretrieval monitoring processes... - Metacognition and false recognition in Alzheimer's disease: further exploration of the distinctiveness heuristicAndrew E Budson
Geriatric Research Education Center, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA, USA
Neuropsychology 19:253-8. 2005.... - The neural correlates of conceptual and perceptual false recognitionRachel J Garoff Eaton
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Learn Mem 14:684-92. 2007.... - False recognition in Alzheimer disease: evidence from categorized picturesAndrew E Budson
Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cogn Behav Neurol 16:16-27. 2003..To better understand memory distortions and false recognition in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), using a paradigm of categorized color photographs... - Evidence for a specific role of the anterior hippocampal region in successful associative encodingElizabeth F Chua
Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Hippocampus 17:1071-80. 2007..These data provide evidence for functional specialization within the hippocampal formation based on the associative nature of the stimuli and subsequent memory... - Distinguishing familiarity-based from source-based memory performance in patients with schizophreniaAnthony P Weiss
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Schizophr Res 99:208-17. 2008..Yet the exact nature of these deficits remains a matter of some debate. This study sought to examine performance on two distinct aspects of memory performance: familiarity-based and source-based memory processes... - Functional neuroimaging of self-referential encoding with ageAngela H Gutchess
Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454 9110, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:211-9. 2010..We suggest that older adults may encode information about the self in a more normative manner, whereas young adults focus on encoding the unique aspects of the self and distinguishing the self from others... - The cortical underpinnings of context-based memory distortionElissa Aminoff
Harvard University, MA, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:2226-37. 2008..This phenomenon was reflected by activity in the cortical network mediating contextual processing, which provides a better understanding of how the brain represents and processes context... - Hippocampal and neocortical activation during repetitive encoding in older personsErin Rand-Giovannetti
Gerontology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Neurobiol Aging 27:173-82. 2006..Our findings suggest that hippocampal function is preserved in normal aging and that repetition-based memory enhancing techniques may engage primarily neocortical attentional networks... - Use of a false recognition paradigm in an Alzheimer's disease clinical trial: a pilot studyAndrew E Budson
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 17:93-100. 2002..Because medications to treat AD may preferentially improve gist memory or item-specific recollection, use of this type of paradigm may improve sensitivity for detection of drug effects more than standard memory tests... - Processing emotional pictures and words: effects of valence and arousalElizabeth A Kensinger
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 6:110-26. 2006.... - Two types of recollection-based monitoring in younger and older adults: Recall-to-reject and the distinctiveness heuristicDavid A Gallo
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Memory 14:730-41. 2006..Depending on how a retrieval task is structured, attempts to use one monitoring process might interfere with another, especially in older adults... - Retrieval monitoring and anosognosia in Alzheimer's diseaseDavid A Gallo
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, IL 60657, USA
Neuropsychology 21:559-68. 2007.... - An electrophysiological investigation of the relationship between conceptual fluency and familiarityDavid A Wolk
Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neurosci Lett 369:150-5. 2004..The effects on the N400 may be related to the impact of fluency on familiarity, whereas later processing may be involved in the attribution of fluency to prior experience... - Electrophysiological dissociation of picture versus word encoding: the distinctiveness heuristic as a retrieval orientationAndrew E Budson
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, and Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1181-93. 2005.... - False recognition of pictures versus words in Alzheimer's disease: the distinctiveness heuristicAndrew E Budson
Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Neuropsychology 16:163-73. 2002..Implications for understanding semantic memory in AD patients are discussed... - Encoding activity in anterior medial temporal lobe supports subsequent associative recognitionOrville Jackson
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuroimage 21:456-62. 2004..These findings provide evidence that the anterior medial temporal lobes support the successful binding of information in memory... - Specific- and partial-source memory: effects of agingJon S Simons
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Psychol Aging 19:689-94. 2004..When the groups were matched on partial-source performance, no disproportionate specific-source impairment was seen. The results suggest that aging does not differentially affect specific- versus partial-source memory... - Memory and emotions for the september 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in patients with Alzheimer's disease, patients with mild cognitive impairment, and healthy older adultsAndrew E Budson
Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neuropsychology 18:315-27. 2004..Last, distortions of memory for personal information were frequent for all participants but were more common in patients with AD... - A sensory signature that distinguishes true from false memoriesScott D Slotnick
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Nat Neurosci 7:664-72. 2004..Thus, the sensory signature that distinguishes true from false recognition may not be accessible to conscious awareness... - Memory orientation and success: separable neurocognitive components underlying episodic recognitionIan G Dobbins
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH MIT HMS, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:318-33. 2003..These results indicate that different memory orientations recruit distinct prefrontal and parietal networks and that the recovery of episodic context is associated with the hippocampus and surrounding medial temporal cortices... - Retrieval of relational information: a role for the left inferior prefrontal cortexRajendra D Badgaiyan
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuroimage 17:393-400. 2002..The LIPFC appears to be associated with relational retrieval and the right prefrontal cortex with nonrelational retrieval... - Neural basis for recognition confidence in younger and older adultsElizabeth F Chua
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Aging 24:139-53. 2009.... - Ageing and the self-reference effect in memoryAngela H Gutchess
Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, USA
Memory 15:822-37. 2007..Self-referencing improves older adults' memory, but its benefits are circumscribed despite the social and personally relevant nature of the task... - The effects of emotional content on reality-monitoring performance in young and older adultsElizabeth A Kensinger
Boston College, Department of Psychology, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Psychol Aging 22:752-64. 2007..e., an enhanced ability to remember that a positive item was studied), they do not always show enhanced memory for source-specifying details of a positive item's presentation... - Hippocampal and brain stem activation during word retrieval after repeated and semantic encodingStephan Heckers
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
Cereb Cortex 12:900-7. 2002..These findings confirm the importance of hippocampal recruitment during word retrieval and provide novel evidence for a role of brainstem neurons in word retrieval after semantic encoding... - The brain's default network: anatomy, function, and relevance to diseaseRandy L Buckner
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Drive, Cambridge, MA 02148, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1124:1-38. 2008..We conclude by discussing the relevance of the default network for understanding mental disorders including autism, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease... - Late frontal brain potentials distinguish true and false recognitionRachel E Goldmann
Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neuroreport 14:1717-20. 2003.... - Associative recognition in Alzheimer's disease: evidence for impaired recall-to-rejectDavid A Gallo
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychology 18:556-63. 2004..AD impaired this recall-to-reject process, leading to more familiarity based false alarms. These data support the idea that recollection-based monitoring processes are impaired in mild AD... - Solving future problems: default network and executive activity associated with goal-directed mental simulationsKathy D Gerlach
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuroimage 55:1816-24. 2011.... - Scenes unseen: the parahippocampal cortex intrinsically subserves contextual associations, not scenes or places per seMoshe Bar
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
J Neurosci 28:8539-44. 2008..quot;.. - Mis-attribution errors in Alzheimer's disease: the illusory truth effectJason P Mitchell
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychology 20:185-92. 2006..These results help further specify the precise nature of memory impairments in AD... - Intact suppression of increased false recognition in schizophreniaAnthony P Weiss
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:1506-13. 2002..By studying pictures of the target word during encoding, healthy adults can suppress false recognition. This study examined the effect of pictorial encoding on subsequent recognition of repeated foils in patients with schizophrenia... - Emotional content and reality-monitoring ability: fMRI evidence for the influences of encoding processesElizabeth A Kensinger
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 884, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:1429-43. 2005.... - Retrieving accurate and distorted memories: neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotionElizabeth A Kensinger
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA
Neuroimage 27:167-77. 2005..To our knowledge, this study is the first to demonstrate a link between limbic engagement at retrieval and accurate memory attribution... - The neural origins of specific and general memory: the role of the fusiform cortexRachel J Garoff
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:847-59. 2005..These results suggest that the right fusiform cortex is associated with specific feature encoding, while the left fusiform cortex is involved in more general object encoding... - Aging and strategic retrieval processes: reducing false memories with a distinctiveness heuristicChad S Dodson
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904, USA
Psychol Aging 17:405-15. 2002..Studying pictures provided a basis for using a distinctiveness heuristic during the recognition test: Individuals inferred that the absence of memory for picture information indicates that an item is "new.".. - fMRI evidence for the role of recollection in suppressing misattribution errors: the illusory truth effectJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:800-10. 2005.... - Remembering the past and imagining the future: common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaborationDonna Rose Addis
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:1363-77. 2007..This striking neural overlap is consistent with findings that amnesic patients exhibit deficits in both past and future thinking, and confirms that the episodic system contributes importantly to imagining the future... - Graded recall success: an event-related fMRI comparison of tip of the tongue and feeling of knowingAnat Maril
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA
Neuroimage 24:1130-8. 2005..The results are interpreted in the light of theories of the role of prefrontal cortex in recall and cognitive conflict... - Executive control during episodic retrieval: multiple prefrontal processes subserve source memoryIan G Dobbins
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH MIT HMS, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Neuron 35:989-96. 2002.... - Dissociating confidence and accuracy: functional magnetic resonance imaging shows origins of the subjective memory experienceElizabeth F Chua
Center for Neurocognitive Studies, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 221 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
J Cogn Neurosci 16:1131-42. 2004..These findings may also aid understanding of eyewitness misidentifications and memory distortions... - Neural correlates of metamemory: a comparison of feeling-of-knowing and retrospective confidence judgmentsElizabeth F Chua
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1751-65. 2009..These findings demonstrate both common and distinct neural mechanisms supporting metamemory processes and also serve to elucidate the functional roles of previously characterized brain networks... - Priming of new associations: a PET studyRajendra D Badgaiyan
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, Rm 875, 33, Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuroreport 14:2475-9. 2003..Medial temporal lobe was activated only in the same-context condition. This finding helps to understand why associative priming is impaired in some amnesic patients... - How negative emotion enhances the visual specificity of a memoryElizabeth A Kensinger
Boston College, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 19:1872-87. 2007..These data provide strong evidence that engagement of some amygdalar regions can correspond with enhanced memory for certain types of details, but does not ensure successful encoding of all contextual details... - Memory for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks one year later in patients with Alzheimer's disease, patients with mild cognitive impairment, and healthy older adultsAndrew E Budson
Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Cortex 43:875-88. 2007..Lastly, although memory distortions were common among all groups, they were greatest in the patients with AD... - Cortical activity reductions during repetition priming can result from rapid response learningIan G Dobbins
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Nature 428:316-9. 2004..In contrast, prefrontal cortex activity tracked behavioural priming and predicted the degree to which cue reversal would slow down object classification--highlighting the role of the prefrontal cortex in executive control... - fMRI evidence for separable and lateralized prefrontal memory monitoring processesIan G Dobbins
Duke University, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:908-20. 2004..These data suggest a role for right PFC in the close monitoring of the familiarity of objects, which becomes critical when contextual recollection is ineffective in satisfying a memory demand... - ERP correlates of Remember/Know decisions: association with the late posterior negativityDavid A Wolk
Alzheimer s Disease Research Center, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Biol Psychol 75:131-5. 2007..Previous work has described a late posterior negativity which appears to be related to the search for and recapitulation of study details. Such processing may be critical in making Remember/Know determinations... - Failing to get the gist: reduced false recognition of semantic associates in semantic dementiaJon S Simons
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Neuropsychology 19:353-61. 2005.... - The modality effect in false recognition: evidence for test-based monitoringBenton H Pierce
Department of Psychology and Special Education, Texas A and M University, Commerce, TX 75429, USA
Mem Cognit 33:1407-13. 2005..A modality effect was not obtained for either type of list on this test. The results from both experiments were predicted by a test-based monitoring account, rather than by the study-based monitoring or relational processing accounts... - Gist memory in Alzheimer's disease: evidence from categorized picturesAndrew E Budson
Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Neuropsychology 20:113-22. 2006..Implications of these findings for understanding gist memory and response bias in patients with AD are discussed... - Impaired implicit memory for gist information in amnesiaMieke Verfaellie
Memory Disorders Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston VA Healthcare System, MA 02130, USA
Neuropsychology 19:760-9. 2005..Amnesics' implicit memory for lures was again impaired. These results point to an inability to encode robust gist representations as the cause of impaired gist memory in amnesia...
Research Grants
- Event-related neuroimaging of human memory formationDANIEL SCHACTER; Fiscal Year: 2009..The proposed studies will increase our understanding of how memories are constructed, and will also contribute to efforts to improve memory. ..
- AGING MEMORYDANIEL SCHACTER; Fiscal Year: 2007..Fortype specifications, see instructions on page 6.) RESEARCH GRANT TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Numbers Face Page 1 Description, ..
- EVENT RELATED NEUROIMAGING OF HUMAN MEMORY FORMATIONDANIEL SCHACTER; Fiscal Year: 2003..The proposed studies will provide new information about the neuroanatomical bases of encoding processes and thereby contribute to the further development of rehabilitation efforts. ..
- Event-related neuroimaging of human memory formationDaniel L Schacter; Fiscal Year: 2010....