TY - JOUR T1 - Constructing Realistic Engrams: Poststimulus Activity of Hippocampus and Dorsal Striatum Predicts Subsequent Episodic Memory JF - The Journal of Neuroscience JO - J. Neurosci. SP - 9032 LP - 9042 DO - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0702-11.2011 VL - 31 IS - 24 AU - Aya Ben-Yakov AU - Yadin Dudai Y1 - 2011/06/15 UR - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/24/9032.abstract N2 - Encoding of real-life episodic memory commonly involves integration of information as the episode unfolds. Offline processing immediately following event offset is expected to play a role in encoding the episode into memory. In this study, we examined whether distinct human brain activity time-locked to the offset of short narrative audiovisual episodes could predict subsequent memory for the gist of the episodes. We found that a set of brain regions, most prominently the bilateral hippocampus and the bilateral caudate nucleus, exhibit memory-predictive activity time-locked to the stimulus offset. We propose that offline activity in these regions reflects registration to memory of integrated episodes. ER -