Parietal Cortex and Episodic Memory: An Attentional Account

By Roberto Cabeza, Elisa Ciaramelli, Ingrid R. Olson, Morris Moscovitch. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2008

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The contribution of the parietal cortex to episodic memory is a fascinating scientific puzzle. On the one hand, parietal lesions do not normally yield severe episodic-memory deficits; on the other hand, parietal activations are seen frequently in functional-neuroimaging studies of episodic memory. A review of these two categories of evidence suggests that the answer to the puzzle requires us to distinguish between the contributions of dorsal and ventral parietal regions and between the influence of top-down and bottom-up attention on memory.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Functional neuroimaging of autobiographical memory. (2007, background): “As memory details are retrieved, there is greater bottom-up attention mediated by the ventral parietal cortex (e.g., Berryhill, Phuong, Picasso, et al., 2007; for reviews, see Cabeza, 2008; Cabeza et al., 2008).”
A taxonomy of external and internal attention. (2011, positive): “Accordingly , recent theories have drawn analogies between selection in the perceptual domain and selection during memory retrieval (Cabeza et al. 2008, Wagner et al. 2005).”
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Multimodal Feature Integration in the Angular Gyrus during Episodic and Semantic Retrieval (2016, background): “, 2005), or an area involved in attentional processes in memory (Cabeza et al., 2008).”
Default network activity, coupled with the frontoparietal control network, supports goal-directed cognition (2010, neutral): “Components of this network have been studied in the context of cognitive control (Badre and D'Esposito, 2009; Koechlin et al., 1999; Cabeza et al., 2008; Corbetta et al., 2008), and it has been anatomically characterized using resting-state functional connectivity analyses of MRI data (rsfcMRI)…”
Episodic future thinking reduces reward delay discounting through an enhancement of prefrontal-mediotemporal interactions. (2010, background): “It has recently been suggested that lateral (ventral) parietal cortex activity may reflect attention to bottom-up activated memory content (Cabeza et al., 2008) or internal representations in Figure 7.”
Decoding the tradeoff between encoding and retrieval to predict memory for overlapping events (2018, positive): “More generally, our findings are relevant to understanding interactions and relationships between attention and memory (Cabeza et al., 2008) in that tradeoffs between encoding vs.”
Prefrontal contributions to metacognition in perceptual decision-making (2012, background): “…studies of recognition memory have shown greater activity in right dorsolateral PFC and posterior parietal cortex for low-confidence responses (Cabeza et al., 2008; Henson et al., 2000; Fleck et al., 2006), and Fleck et al. (2006) showed that confidence-related activity in lateral BA10/46 is…”
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