Abstract
Historically, studies of brain-damaged humans and experimentally lesioned animals have provided abundant evidence regarding neural underpinning for episodic memory. These studies have revealed that the medial temporal lobe, including the hippocampus, plays a critical role in different memory stages including encoding, consolidation, and retrieval. Furthermore, these studies demonstrated differences in the level of impairment caused by a lesion across memory stages, suggesting that each stage might recruit different brain regions, although some of them might overlap. The advancement of neuroimaging methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) enabled investigation of the thorough coverage of brain regions without invasion in healthy human subjects. In this chapter, we offer comprehensive and concise commentaries on functional neuroimaging approaches to reveal mechanisms underlying memory encoding, retrieval and consolidation. We further describe novel approaches such as multi-voxel pattern analysis used for decoding of memory representations and real-time fMRI that could show causality beyond correlation.
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Chikazoe, J., Konishi, S. (2017). Functional Neuroimaging Approaches to Human Memory. In: Tsukiura, T., Umeda, S. (eds) Memory in a Social Context. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56591-8_2
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