About the Book
The collection of papers presented covers a range of stimulating memory-related topics, ranging from a study of autobiographical memory, working memory, an investigation into "medial temporal lobe" versus "diencephalic" amnesia (combined with an evaluation of different forms of image analysis), neuroimaging and "psychogenic amnesia", an empirical review paper, a study of incidental retrieval in the context of encoding, a critique of contemporary neuroimaging research (with specific reference to the anatomical lesion literature), a neuroimaging study of memory using event-related functional neuroimaging, a paper concerned with the interpretation and meaning of psychological data obtained from contemporary neuroimaging methodologies, to a submission which questions the view that anatomically "bigger" structures necessarily subserve memory "better".
All the contributors to this special edition acknowledge the the intrinsically highly dynamic nature of this field. However, taken together, these papers provide an overview of where neuroimaging data currently place us, with respect to the issue of the neural mediation of memory, and concerning our theorizing about the cognitive architecture of memory processes. Such a review is important and timely: this research perspective, unavailable until just few years go, has already made a considerable contribution to our level of understanding, and, if harnessed appropriately, has considerably more to offer in the future.
Table of Contents:
Preface. J.K. Foster, Images, Memories, and Models: Introduction to the Special Issue. A.R. McIntosh, Mapping Cognition to the Brain Through Neural Interactions. der Linden, F. Collette, E. Salmon, G. Delfiore, C. Degueldre, A. Luxen, G. Franck, The Neural Correlates of Updating of Information in Verbal Working Memory. H.J. Markowitsch, Functional Neuroimaging Correlates of Functional Amnesia. L. Nyberg, Imaging Episodic Memory: Implications for Cognitive Theories and Phenomena. L.J. Reed, P. Marsden, D. Lasserson, N. Sheldon, P. Lewis, N. Stanhope, E. Guinan, M.D. Kopelman, FDG-PET Analysis and Findings in Amnesia Resulting from Hypoxia. A.R. Mayes, D. Montaldi, The Neuroimaging of Long-term Memory Encoding Processes. K.B. McDermott, J.G. Ojemann, S.E. Petersen, J.M. Ollinger, A.Z. Snyder, E. Akbudak, T.E. Conturo, M.E. Raichle, Direct Comparison of Episodic Encoding and Retrieval of Words: An Event-related fMRI Study. M.A. Conway, D.J. Turk, S.L. Miller, J. Logan, R.D. Nebes, C.C. Meltzer, J.T. Becker, A Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Study of Autobiographical Memory Retrieval. P.C. Fletcher, R.J. Dolan, Right Prefrontal Cortex Responds to Item Familiarity During a Memory Encoding Task. J.K. Foster, A. Meikle, G. Goodson, A.R. Mayes, M. Howard, S.I. Suenram, E. Cezayirli, N. Roberts, The Hippocampus and Delayed Recall: Bigger is not Necessarily Better? J.K. Foster, Memory, Imaging, and the Mind Brain: In Conclusion. Contents.
