The precise functional role of the hippocampus remains a topic of much debate. The
dominant view is that the dorsal (or posterior) hippocampus is implicated in memory and …

The brain creates a model of the world around us. We can use this representation to
perceive and comprehend what we see at any given moment, but also to vividly re …

Traditional approaches to the study of cognition emphasize an information-processing view
that has generally excluded emotion. In contrast, the recent emergence of cognitive …

The homologues of the two distinct architectonic areas 44 and 45 that constitute the anterior
language zone (Broca's region) in the human ventrolateral frontal lobe were recently …

Studies examining memories of arousing'real-life'events show that emotion heightens the
feeling of remembering, without necessarily enhancing the objective accuracy of the …

A key component of spatial navigation is the ability to use visual information to ascertain
where one is located and how one is oriented in the world. We used functional magnetic …

To investigate the neural basis of age-related source memory (SM) deficits, young and older
adults were scanned with fMRI while encoding faces, scenes, and face-scene pairs …

A growing body of evidence suggests emotion boosts memory accuracy to an extent but
affects the subjective sense of recollection even more. The result is vivid memories for …

Many theories of declarative memory propose that it is supported by partially separable
processes underpinned by different brain structures. The hippocampus plays a critical role in …

The" parahippocampal place area"(PPA) responds more strongly in functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) to scenes than to faces, objects, or other visual stimuli. We used …