Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Distinct cortical systems reinstate the content and context of episodic memories

  • James E. Kragel,
  • Youssef Ezzyat,
  • Bradley C. Lega,
  • Michael R. Sperling,
  • Gregory A. Worrell,
  • Robert E. Gross,
  • Barbara C. Jobst,
  • Sameer A. Sheth,
  • Kareem A. Zaghloul,
  • Joel M. Stein,
  • Michael J. Kahana

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24393-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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People can search for memories based on their content or context, defined as when and where they were formed. Here, the authors use direct brain recordings to provide evidence in line with the idea that separable neural systems retrieve these two types of information and predict whether recall is organized by time or content.