Editorial: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory

Markowitsch, Hans J.

doi:10.1080/13554799808410636

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“…These neurophysiological ¢ndings ¢t well with other studies that have also detected posterior activation in episodic remembering (Nyberg et al 2000;Wheeler et al 2000; see also Markowitsch 1998) and collectively they suggest that EMs may be represented in those sensoryperceptual regions of the brain involved in their original processing. AM is, however, more than just a record of sensory-perceptual processing, and the pattern of activation unfolding over the whole period and culminating in an interlocked pattern of frontal and posterior activation once a memory is formed shows, by the present view, conceptual autobiographical knowledge being linked to sensory-perceptual episodic memory, and in so doing provides a retrieval context for EMs.…”

Section: (E) Neurologysupporting

confidence: 87%

Sensory–perceptual episodic memory and its context: autobiographical memory

Conway

2001

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

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Episodic memory is reconceived as a memory system that retains highly detailed sensory perceptual knowledge of recent experience over retention intervals measured in minutes and hours. Episodic knowledge has yet to be integrated with the autobiographical memory knowledge base and so takes as its context or referent the immediate past of the experiencing self (or thèI'). When recalled it can be accessed independently of content and is recollectively experienced. Autobiographical memory, in contrast, retains knowledge over retention intervals measured in weeks, months, years, decades and across the life span. Autobiographical knowledge represents the experienced self (or thème'), is always accessed by its content and, when accessed, does not necessarily give rise to recollective experience. Instead, recollective experience occurs when autobiographical knowledge retains access to associated episodic memories. In this reworking of thèepisodic memory' concept autobiographical memory provides the instantiating context for sensory-perceptual episodic memory.

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Section: (E) Neurologysupporting

confidence: 87%

Sensory–perceptual episodic memory and its context: autobiographical memory

Conway

2001

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

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“…This then would seem to imply a left hemisphere‐lateralized autobiographical memory system. However, Markowitsch and colleagues (Fink et al, 1996; Markowitsch, 1998; Markowitsch, 1995) have demonstrated greater right hemisphere activation during the retrieval of autobiographical memories. It may be possible to explain the differences in cortical activity associated with retrieval from autobiographical memory in terms of the methodological differences across these studies (for a review see Conway et al, 2002).…”

Section: The Self As An Associative Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Out of Contact, Out of Mind

Turk

Heatherton

Macrae

et al. 2003

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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A truly remarkable aspect of human existence is the unitary sense of self that exists across time and place. Understanding the nature of self-what it is and what it does-has challenged scholars since antiquity. How can empirical research measure what it is to have a sense of self? We propose that the sense of self may emerge from the functions of a left hemisphere "interpreter". First, we examine evidence for the existence of self-processing mechanisms in the intact brain, from behavioral and functional neuroimaging research. The available evidence suggests that the sense of self is widely distributed throughout the brain. Second, we discuss these findings in relation to what is known about higher cognitive functions in humans who have undergone a surgical procedure to sever the connection between the two cerebral hemispheres. Split-brain research has facilitated an understanding of the way in which each cerebral hemisphere independently processes information. Research in this area has shown that each cerebral hemisphere features distinct information-processing capabilities. This cognitive asymmetry is reflected in the notion of a left hemisphere interpreter module which, we have argued, generates a unitary sense of consciousness even in the disconnected brain. This chapter describes how this interpreter may also give rise to a unified sense of self.

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“…La neuropsicología ha perfilado de modo sistemático la relación entre las estructuras de la memoria y sus bases anatómicas. En este proceso, la investigación iniciada por Brenda Milner a raíz de un caso de amnesia global tras una lobulectomía bitemporal [1] se considera un hito histórico, que da comienzo a toda una serie de trabajos que han asociado las funciones de la memoria a los lóbulos temporales mediales y, concretamente, a la formación del hipocampo [2,3]. No obstante, esto no quiere decir que el hipocampo sea la única estructura neuroanatómica responsable del funcionamiento de la memoria, puesto que en este sistema se incluyen otras áreas, como el diencéfalo o el córtex prefrontal.…”

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