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Volume 16, Number 13,
Issue of July 1, 1996
pp. 4275-4282
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience
Cerebral Representation of One's Own Past: Neural Networks
Involved in Autobiographical Memory
Received Dec. 19, 1995; revised April 16, 1996; accepted April 18, 1996.
Gereon R. Fink1, 2,
Hans
J. Markowitsch3,
Mechthild Reinkemeier3,
Thomas Bruckbauer1,
Josef Kessler1, and
Wolf-Dieter Heiss1, 2
1 Max-Planck-Institut für Neurologische
Forschung, D-50931 Köln, Germany,
2 Universitätsklinik für Neurologie der
Universität zu Köln, D-50924 Köln, Germany, and
3 Physiologische Psychologie, Universität
Bielefeld, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
We studied the functional anatomy of affect-laden autobiographical
memory in normal volunteers. Using H215O
positron emission tomography (PET), we measured changes in relative
regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). Four rCBF measurements were
obtained during three conditions: REST, i.e., subjects lay at rest (for
control); IMPERSONAL, i.e., subjects listened to sentences containing
episodic information taken from an autobiography of a person they did
not know, but which had been presented to them before PET scanning
(nonautobiographical episodic memory ecphory); and PERSONAL, i.e.,
subjects listened to sentences containing information taken from their
own past (autobiographical episodic memory ecphory).
Comparing IMPERSONAL with REST (nonautobiographical episodic memory
ecphory) resulted in relative rCBF increases symmetrically in both
temporal lobes including the temporal poles and medial and superior
temporal gyri. The same loci, however, with a stronger lateralization
to the right hemisphere were activated in the comparison PERSONAL to
REST (autobiographical episodic memory ecphory). In addition, the right
temporomesial, right dorsal prefrontal, right posterior cingulate
areas, and the left cerebellum were activated. A comparison of PERSONAL
and IMPERSONAL (autobiographical vs nonautobiographical episodic memory
ecphory) demonstrated a preponderantly right hemispheric activation
including primarily right temporomesial and temporolateral cortex,
right posterior cingulate areas, right insula, and right prefrontal
areas. The right temporomesial activation included hippocampus,
parahippocampus, and amygdala.
These results suggest that a right hemispheric network of temporal,
together with posterior, cingulate, and prefrontal, areas is engaged in
the ecphory of affect-laden autobiographical information.
Key words:
PET;
autobiographical memory;
episodic memory;
retrieval;
cingulate;
limbic system
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