Left lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) is consistently activated in neuroimaging studies of memory encoding. Its role, however, remains unclear. We describe two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies addressing this question. In the first we used a blocked experimental design to explore the effect of repeated encoding of word paired associates. Initial presentation of word pairs was associated with left ventrolateral PFC activation that attenuated with subsequent presentations of the same lists. When well-learned lists were presented with word pairs rearranged, a left PFC activation, greater than that associated with the initial presentation, was observed. In a second experiment, the formation of these associative relationships was explored using an event-related design. Two types of word pairs were presented: closely related (e.g., Ring...Queen) and distantly related (e.g., Net...Ship). The same region of left PFC was differentially sensitive to these two event-types, showing a greater response for distantly related pairs.

“Sculpting the response space” – an account of left prefrontal activation at encoding / Fletcher, Pc; Shallice, Timothy; Dolan, Rj. - In: NEUROIMAGE. - ISSN 1053-8119. - 12:4(2000), pp. 404-417. [10.1006/nimg.2000.0633]

“Sculpting the response space” – an account of left prefrontal activation at encoding

Shallice, Timothy;
2000-01-01

Abstract

Left lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) is consistently activated in neuroimaging studies of memory encoding. Its role, however, remains unclear. We describe two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies addressing this question. In the first we used a blocked experimental design to explore the effect of repeated encoding of word paired associates. Initial presentation of word pairs was associated with left ventrolateral PFC activation that attenuated with subsequent presentations of the same lists. When well-learned lists were presented with word pairs rearranged, a left PFC activation, greater than that associated with the initial presentation, was observed. In a second experiment, the formation of these associative relationships was explored using an event-related design. Two types of word pairs were presented: closely related (e.g., Ring...Queen) and distantly related (e.g., Net...Ship). The same region of left PFC was differentially sensitive to these two event-types, showing a greater response for distantly related pairs.
2000
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Fletcher, Pc; Shallice, Timothy; Dolan, Rj
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