Sustained neural representations of personally familiar people and places during cued recall.

ABSTRACT: The recall and visualization of people and places from memory is an everyday occurrence, yet the neural mechanisms underpinning this phenomenon are not well understood. In particular, the temporal characteristics of the internal representations generated by active recall are unclear. Here, we used magnetoencephalography (MEG) and multivariate pattern analysis to measure the evolving neural representation of familiar places and people across the whole brain when human participants engage in active recall. To isolate self-generated imagined representations, we used a retro-cue paradigm in which participants were first presented with two possible labels before being cued to recall either the first or second item. We collected personalized labels for specific locations and people familiar to e

SUBMITTER: Corriveau A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9840701 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature