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Identifying the cognitive processes underpinning hippocampal-dependent tasks.
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Victoria Hotchin ,
Anna Monk ,
Gloria Pizzamiglio ,
Alice Liefgreen,
Eleanor A. Maguire
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume: 148, Issue: 11, Pages: 1861 - 1881
Swansea University Author: Alice Liefgreen
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DOI (Published version): 10.1037/xge0000582
Abstract
Autobiographical memory, future thinking, and spatial navigation are critical cognitive functions that are thought to be related and are known to depend upon a brain structure called the hippocampus. Surprisingly, direct evidence for their interrelatedness is lacking, as is an understanding of why t...
| Published in: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General |
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| ISSN: | 0096-3445 1939-2222 |
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American Psychological Association (APA)
2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60557 |
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Autobiographical memory, future thinking, and spatial navigation are critical cognitive functions that are thought to be related and are known to depend upon a brain structure called the hippocampus. Surprisingly, direct evidence for their interrelatedness is lacking, as is an understanding of why they might be related. There is debate about whether they are linked by an underlying memory-related process or, as has more recently been suggested, because they each require the endogenous construction of scene imagery. Here, using a large sample of participants and multiple cognitive tests with a wide spread of individual differences in performance, we found that these functions are indeed related. Mediation analyses further showed that scene construction, and not memory, mediated (explained) the relationships between the functions. These findings offer a fresh perspective on autobiographical memory, future thinking, navigation, and also on the hippocampus, where scene imagery appears to play an influential role. |
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autobiographical memory, future thinking, navigation, scene construction, individual differences |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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All authors were supported by a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow-ship to Eleanor A. Maguire (101759/Z/13/Z) and the Centre by a CentreAward from Wellcome (203147/Z/16/Z). |
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11 |
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1861 |
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1881 |