Hippocampal activity patterns carry information about objects in temporal context.

ABSTRACT: The hippocampus is critical for human episodic memory, but its role remains controversial. One fundamental question concerns whether the hippocampus represents specific objects or assigns context-dependent representations to objects. Here, we used multivoxel pattern similarity analysis of fMRI data during retrieval of learned object sequences to systematically investigate hippocampal coding of object and temporal context information. Hippocampal activity patterns carried information about the temporal positions of objects in learned sequences, but not about objects or temporal positions in random sequences. Hippocampal activity patterns differentiated between overlapping object sequences and between temporally adjacent objects that belonged to distinct sequence contexts. Parahippocampal an

SUBMITTER: Hsieh LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3984944 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature