Recognition memory performance can be estimated based on brain activation networks

Large‐scale network dynamics underlying the first few hundred milliseconds after stimulus presentation: An investigation of visual recognition memory using iEEG

“…The variety and simultaneity of these adaptive processes could explain the need for integrated information processing. Petrovska et al ( 2021 ) consistently stressed in an fMRI study of 1410 subjects the importance of left‐lateralized networks in recognition memory (although the network encompassing the anterior ventral stream was, as expected, more right‐lateralized), which is in agreement with the predominant left‐lateralization of our identified network. In summary, given the different architecture of the top‐down and bottom‐up networks, as well as the different characteristics and cognitive processes they are thought to support, these networks may underlie highly different subjective experiences.…”

“…Alongside the MTL, visual recognition memory also depends on the “what” system: the visual ventral stream involving temporo‐basal brain regions such as the lingual, fusiform, and parahippocampal gyri (DiCarlo et al, 2012 ). The participation of the ventral stream is asymmetric, as visual recognition memory relies more on the ventral stream in the right hemisphere than in the left hemisphere (Barbeau et al, 2008 ; Elger et al, 1997 ; Guerin & Miller, 2009 ; Patterson & Bradshaw, 1975 ; Petrovska et al, 2021 ). In addition, visual recognition memory also involves parietal and frontal lobe regions in both hemispheres for a host of processes related to confidence, decision‐making, attention to memory, meta‐memory, and behavioral response (Bastin et al, 2019 for a review; Gonzalez et al, 2015 ; Hoppstädter et al, 2015 ; Petrovska et al, 2021 ).…”

“…The participation of the ventral stream is asymmetric, as visual recognition memory relies more on the ventral stream in the right hemisphere than in the left hemisphere (Barbeau et al, 2008 ; Elger et al, 1997 ; Guerin & Miller, 2009 ; Patterson & Bradshaw, 1975 ; Petrovska et al, 2021 ). In addition, visual recognition memory also involves parietal and frontal lobe regions in both hemispheres for a host of processes related to confidence, decision‐making, attention to memory, meta‐memory, and behavioral response (Bastin et al, 2019 for a review; Gonzalez et al, 2015 ; Hoppstädter et al, 2015 ; Petrovska et al, 2021 ). Therefore, even a simple task, such as deciding whether an object has already been seen, involves a large number of brain regions throughout the entire brain.…”

Have you been there before? Decoding recognition of spatial scenes from fMRI signals in precuneus

“…This function is in line with the integrative nature of the precuneus which incorporates endogenous and sensory information in a coherent representation of the world (Brodt et al, 2016; Yeshurun et al, 2021), such as the case of egocentric and allocentric inputs (e.g., images of the same room from different perspectives). These representations are continuously updated during visual exploration, with precuneus acting as a central hub in prediction‐error of ongoing real‐life events (Brandman et al, 2021), through the activation of relevant representations of ongoing visual stimuli, thus supporting online recognition (Petrovska et al, 2021). A similar approach to that of the present study was adopted by Cabeza et al (2004), who investigated evoked brain activity while participants were watching pictures of scenes either taken by the subject himself (during first‐person experience of the scene; “ controlled autobiographical condition ”) or by other participants, and thus viewed for the first time in a laboratory setting (“ controlled laboratory condition ”).…”