Search and recovery of autobiographical and laboratory memories: Shared and distinct neural components.

ABSTRACT: Functional neuroimaging evidence suggests that there are differences in the neural correlates of episodic memory for laboratory stimuli (laboratory memory) and for events from one's own life (autobiographical memory). However, this evidence is scarce and often confounded with differences in memory testing procedures. Here, we directly compared the neural mechanisms underlying the search and recovery of autobiographical and laboratory memories while minimizing testing differences. Before scanning, participants completed a laboratory memory encoding task in which they studied four-word "chains" spread across three word pairs. During scanning, participants completed a laboratory memory retrieval task, in which they recalled the word chains, and an autobiographical memory retrieval task, in wh

SUBMITTER: Monge ZA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785570 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature