Boundary extension is attenuated in patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex damage.

ABSTRACT: The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and hippocampus have been implicated in the mental construction of scenes and events. However, little is known about their specific contributions to these cognitive functions. Boundary extension (BE) is a robust indicator of fast, automatic, and implicit scene construction. BE occurs when individuals who are viewing scenes automatically imagine what might be beyond the view, and consequently later misremember having seen a greater expanse of the scene. Patients with hippocampal damage show attenuated BE because of their scene construction impairment. In the current study, we administered BE tasks to patients with vmPFC damage, brain-damaged control patients, and healthy control participants. We also contrasted the performance of these patients to

SUBMITTER: De Luca F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6238077 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature