Journal
HIPPOCAMPUS
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 842-852Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20944
Keywords
spatial memory; learning; medial temporal lobe; neocortex
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- Canadian Institute for Health Research [135818]
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to investigate the hypothesis that memory for a large-scale environment is initially dependent on the hippocampus but is later supported by extra-hippocampal structures (e.g., precuneus, posterior parahippocampal cortex, and lingual gyrus) once the environment is well-learned. Participants were scanned during mental navigation tasks initially when they were newly arrived to the city of Toronto, and later after having lived and navigated within the city for 1 yr. In the first session, activation was observed in the right hippocampus, left precuneus, and postcentral gyrus. The second session revealed activation in the caudate and lateral temporal cortex, but not in the right hippocampus; additional activation was instead observed in the posterior parahippocampal cortex, lingual gyrus, and precuneus. These findings suggest that the right hippocampus is required for the acquisition of new spatial information but is not needed to represent this information when the environment is highly familiar. (c) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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