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Chapter 28 - The cognitive neuroscience of memory and consciousness

from Part II - The neuroscience of consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Philip David Zelazo
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Morris Moscovitch
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Evan Thompson
Affiliation:
University of York
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This chapter delineates the neural activity associated with conscious memories characterized by different degrees of retrieval content. It considers three lines of research that have examined aspects of the memory-related sensory/contextual activity and the associated subjective experience. The chapter attempts to separate explicit retrieval into separate components that can be grouped broadly into two categories: retrieval success and retrieval attempt. It discusses imaging experiments concerned with the distinction between remembering and knowing that examine how neural activity correlates with differing degrees or types of conscious experiences. The chapter considers recent work concerned with delineating the neural substrates of true versus false memories, where the role of sensory reactivation in the conscious experience of remembering has been examined in the context of questions concerning the accuracy of explicit retrieval. Neuropsychological studies have provided convergent evidence, particularly regarding the role of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) in both true and false recognition.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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