Title | Mean signal and response time influences on multivoxel signals of contextual retrieval in the medial temporal lobe. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Reas ET, Brewer JB |
Journal | Brain Behav |
Volume | 5 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | e00302 |
Date Published | 2015 Feb |
ISSN | 2162-3279 |
Keywords | Adult, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Memory, Photic Stimulation, Temporal Lobe, Young Adult |
Abstract | INTRODUCTION: The medial temporal lobe supports integrating the "what," "where," and "when" of an experience into a unified memory. However, it remains unclear how representations of these contextual features are neurally encoded and distributed across medial temporal lobe subregions. METHODS: This study conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging of the medial temporal lobe, while participants retrieved pair, spatial, and temporal source memories. Multivoxel classifiers were trained to distinguish between retrieval conditions before and after correction for mean signal and response times, to more thoroughly characterize the multivoxel signal associated with memory context. RESULTS: Activity in perirhinal and parahippocampal cortex dissociated between memory for associated items and memory for their spatiotemporal context, and hippocampal activity was linked to memory for spatial context. However, perirhinal and hippocampal classifiers were, respectively, driven by effects of mean signal amplitude and task difficulty, whereas the parahippocampal classifier survived correction for these effects. CONCLUSION: These findings demonstrate dissociable coding mechanisms for episodic memory context across the medial temporal lobe, and further highlight a critical distinction between multivoxel representations driven by spatially distributed activity patterns, and those driven by the regional signal. |
DOI | 10.1002/brb3.302 |
Alternate Journal | Brain Behav |
PubMed ID | 25646149 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC4312925 |
Grant List | K02 NS067427 / NS / NINDS NIH HHS / United States P50 AG005131 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States T32 MH020002 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States K02NS067427 / NS / NINDS NIH HHS / United States |
Mean signal and response time influences on multivoxel signals of contextual retrieval in the medial temporal lobe.
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IRG Funded