bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: July 26, 2023
Memory
for
temporal
structure
enables
both
planning
of
future
events
and
retrospection
past
events.
We
investigated
how
the
brain
flexibly
represents
extended
sequences
into
during
anticipation.
Participants
learned
environments
in
immersive
virtual
reality.
Pairs
had
same
a
different
order,
enabling
context-specific
learning.
During
fMRI,
participants
anticipated
upcoming
multiple
steps
given
sequence.
Temporal
was
represented
hippocampus
across
higher-order
visual
regions
(1)
bidirectionally,
with
graded
representations
(2)
hierarchically,
further
successively
more
anterior
regions.
In
hippocampus,
these
bidirectional
were
context-specific,
suppression
far-away
predicted
response
time
costs
Together,
this
work
sheds
light
on
we
represent
sequential
to
enable
over
timescales.
Human
medial
parietal
cortex
(MPC)
is
implicated
in
multiple
cognitive
processes
including
memory
recall,
visual
scene
processing
and
navigation,
a
core
component
of
the
default
mode
network.
Here,
we
demonstrate
distinct
subdivisions
MPC
that
are
selectively
recruited
during
recall
either
specific
people
or
places.
First,
regions
exhibited
differential
functional
connectivity
with
lateral
ventral
temporal
(VTC).
Second,
these
same
showed
selective,
but
negative,
responses
to
presentation
different
stimulus
categories,
clear
preferences
for
scenes
faces.
Finally,
most
critically,
were
differentially
places
strong
familiarity
advantage.
Taken
together,
data
suggest
organizing
principle
defining
medial-lateral
axis
VTC
reflected
MPC,
context
recall.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
12(1)
Published: May 11, 2021
The
neural
systems
supporting
scene-perception
and
spatial-memory
of
the
human
brain
are
well-described.
But
how
do
these
interact?
Here,
using
fine-grained
individual-subject
fMRI,
we
report
three
cortical
areas
brain,
each
lying
immediately
anterior
to
a
region
scene
perception
network
in
posterior
cerebral
cortex,
that
selectively
activate
when
recalling
familiar
real-world
locations.
Despite
their
close
proximity
areas,
analyses
show
regions
constitute
distinct
functional
interfaces
with
spatial
memory
during
naturalistic
understanding.
These
"place-memory
areas"
offer
new
framework
for
understanding
implements
memory-guided
visual
behaviors,
including
navigation.
Cerebral Cortex,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
31(4), P. 1898 - 1913
Published: Oct. 14, 2020
Abstract
During
memory
recall
and
visual
imagery,
reinstatement
is
thought
to
occur
as
an
echoing
of
the
neural
patterns
during
encoding.
However,
precise
information
in
these
traces
relatively
unknown,
with
previous
work
primarily
investigating
either
broad
distinctions
or
specific
images,
rarely
bridging
levels
information.
Using
ultra-high-field
(7T)
functional
magnetic
resonance
imaging
item-based
task,
we
conducted
in-depth
comparison
encoding
along
a
spectrum
granularity,
from
coarse
(scenes,
objects)
mid
(e.g.,
natural,
manmade
scenes)
fine
living
room,
cupcake)
levels.
In
scanner,
participants
viewed
trial-unique
item,
after
distractor
visually
imagined
initial
item.
encoding,
observed
decodable
at
all
granularity
category-selective
cortex.
contrast,
was
level
fine-level
some
areas;
there
no
evidence
mid-level
A
closer
look
revealed
segregation
between
voxels
showing
strongest
effects
those
recall,
peaks
encoding–recall
similarity
extended
anterior
Collectively,
results
suggest
not
merely
reactivation
patterns,
displaying
different
representational
structure
localization
despite
overlap.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
12(1)
Published: July 2, 2021
Abstract
A
central
regularity
of
visual
perception
is
the
co-occurrence
objects
in
natural
environment.
Here
we
use
machine
learning
and
fMRI
to
test
hypothesis
that
object
statistics
are
encoded
human
system
elicited
by
individual
objects.
We
identified
low-dimensional
representations
capture
latent
statistical
structure
real-world
scenes,
mapped
these
onto
voxel-wise
responses
during
viewing.
found
cortical
single
were
predicted
ensembles
which
they
typically
occur,
this
link
between
their
contexts
was
made
most
strongly
parahippocampal
cortex,
overlapping
with
anterior
portion
scene-selective
place
area.
In
contrast,
a
language-based
model
names
written
text
neighboring
regions
object-selective
cortex.
Together,
findings
show
sensory
coding
brain
reflects
context
linguistic
experience.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13(1)
Published: Oct. 18, 2022
Abstract
Reactivation
of
earlier
perceptual
activity
is
thought
to
underlie
long-term
memory
recall.
Despite
evidence
for
this
view,
it
unclear
whether
mnemonic
exhibits
the
same
tuning
properties
as
feedforward
activity.
Here,
we
leverage
population
receptive
field
models
parameterize
fMRI
in
human
visual
cortex
during
spatial
retrieval.
Though
retinotopic
organization
present
both
perception
and
memory,
large
systematic
differences
are
also
evident.
Whereas
there
a
three-fold
decline
precision
from
early
late
areas
perception,
pattern
not
observed
This
difference
cannot
be
explained
by
reduced
signal-to-noise
or
poor
performance
on
trials.
Instead,
simulating
top-down
network
model
cortex,
demonstrate
that
property
well
hierarchical
structure
system.
Together,
modeling
empirical
results
suggest
computational
constraints
imposed
system
architecture
limit
fidelity
reactivation
sensory
cortex.
eNeuro,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. ENEURO.0496 - 24.2024
Published: Jan. 2, 2025
Human
medial
parietal
cortex
(MPC)
is
recruited
during
multiple
cognitive
processes.
Previously,
we
demonstrated
regions
specific
to
recall
of
people
or
places
and
proposed
that
the
functional
organization
MPC
mirrors
category
selectivity
defining
medial-lateral
axis
ventral
temporal
(VTC).
However,
prior
work
considered
only
VTC
also
shows
object-selectivity
sandwiched
between
face-
scene-selective
regions.
Here,
tested
a
strong
prediction
our
proposal:
like
VTC,
should
show
region
specifically
object
recall,
its
relative
cortical
position
mirror
one
VTC.
While
responses
place
showed
striking
replication
findings,
did
not
observe
any
evidence
for
object-recall
effects
within
MPC,
which
differentiates
it
from
spatial
in
Importantly,
beyond
robust
recall-effects
were
observed
people,
places,
objects
on
lateral
surface
brain.
Place-recall
present
angular
gyrus,
frontal
eye
fields
peripheral
portions
early
visual
cortex,
whereas
people-recall
selectively
drove
response
right
posterior
superior
sulcus.
Object
largely
restricted
left
somatosensory
vicinity
supramarginal
gyrus.
Taken
together,
these
data
demonstrate
while
there
are
distributed
active
objects,
does
but
reflects
most
salient
features
-
namely
representations
places.
Significance
statement
Recently,
framework
interpreting
by
suggesting
categorical
preferences
evident
Because
exhibits
here
extend
this
test
whether
recall.
Robust
found
no
mirror-copies
each
other.
Together,
suggest