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Cover picture: Parahippocampal cortical regions are depicted that are engaged when people recollect having previously thought of a vivid spatial environment. At encoding, subjects were instructed to imagine a spatial environment that is consistent with a presented adjective (e.g., imaging New England foliage in response to the adjective "tranquil"). Subsequently, at retrieval, subjects recollected these previous thoughts (i.e., recalled their imagery). A statistical parametric map (red) is presented showing that parahippocampal cortex is activated when engaging in visual imagery at encoding, with the anatomical location of this activation overlapping with the brain regions that were active during recollection of the previous visual image (black outlines). These findings suggest that neural representations formed at encoding are recapitulated at retrieval. For details, see the article by Kahn et al. in this issue (pages 4172-4180).