A unifying account of angular gyrus contributions to episodic and semantic cognition

GF Humphreys, MAL Ralph, JS Simons - Trends in neurosciences, 2021 - cell.com
The angular gyrus (AG) region of lateral parietal cortex has been implicated in a wide variety
of tasks and functions, generating numerous influential theories. However, these theories …

Autobiographical event memory and aging: Older adults get the gist

MD Grilli, S Sheldon - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
We propose that older adults' ability to retrieve episodic autobiographical events, although
often viewed through a lens of decline, reveals much about what is preserved and prioritized …

Flexible reuse of cortico-hippocampal representations during encoding and recall of naturalistic events

ZM Reagh, C Ranganath - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Although every life event is unique, there are considerable commonalities across events.
However, little is known about whether or how the brain flexibly represents information about …

Are episodic memories special? On the sameness of remembered and imagined event simulation

DR Addis - Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past decade, episodic memory has been reconceptualised as future-oriented. In
2007, Schacter and I proposed the 'constructive episodic simulation hypothesis' to account …

The multifaceted abstract brain

RH Desai, M Reilly, W van Dam - … Transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Abstract concepts play a central role in human behaviour and constitute a critical component
of the human conceptual system. Here, we investigate the neural basis of four types of …

Rethinking the role of the angular gyrus in remembering the past and imagining the future: the contextual integration model

S Ramanan, O Piguet, M Irish - The Neuroscientist, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite consistent activation on tasks of episodic memory, the precise contribution of the left
angular gyrus (AG) to mnemonic functions remains vigorously debated. Mounting evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Mind-body exercise improves cognitive function and modulates the function and structure of the hippocampus and anterior cingulate cortex in patients with …

J Tao, J Liu, X Chen, R Xia, M Li, M Huang, S Li… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019 - Elsevier
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a common neurological disorder. This study aims to
investigate the modulation effect of Baduanjin (a popular mind-body exercise) on MCI. 69 …

The default network is causally linked to creative thinking

B Shofty, T Gonen, E Bergmann, N Mayseless… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Creative thinking represents a major evolutionary mechanism that greatly contributed to the
rapid advancement of the human species. The ability to produce novel and useful ideas, or …

Effects of healthy and neuropathological aging on autobiographical memory: A meta-analysis of studies using the Autobiographical Interview

S Simpson, M Eskandaripour… - The Journals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Objectives A meta-analytic review was conducted to assess the effects of healthy aging,
amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's disease (AD) on naturalistic …

Varying demands for cognitive control reveals shared neural processes supporting semantic and episodic memory retrieval

D Vatansever, J Smallwood, E Jefferies - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The categorisation of long-term memory into semantic and episodic systems has been an
influential catalyst for research on human memory organisation. However, the impact of …