The shared and unique neural correlates of personal semantic, general semantic, and episodic memory.

ABSTRACT: One of the most common distinctions in long-term memory is that between semantic (i.e., general world knowledge) and episodic (i.e., recollection of contextually specific events from one's past). However, emerging cognitive neuroscience data suggest a surprisingly large overlap between the neural correlates of semantic and episodic memory. Moreover, personal semantic memories (i.e., knowledge about the self and one's life) have been studied little and do not easily fit into the standard semantic-episodic dichotomy. Here, we used fMRI to record brain activity while 48 participants verified statements concerning general facts, autobiographical facts, repeated events, and unique events. In multivariate analysis, all four types of memory involved activity within a common network bilaterally (e

SUBMITTER: Tanguay AFN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10662951 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature