The brain creates a model of the world around us. We can use this representation to
perceive and comprehend what we see at any given moment, but also to vividly re …

An event memory is a mental construction of a scene recalled as a single occurrence. It
therefore requires the hippocampus and ventral visual stream needed for all scene …

The hippocampus and its associated cortical regions in the medial temporal lobe play
essential roles when animals form a cognitive map and use it to achieve their goals. As the …

Work with patient HM, beginning in the 1950s, established key principles about the
organization of memory that inspired decades of experimental work. Since HM, the study of …

The hippocampus appears to be crucial for long-term episodic memory, yet its precise role
remains elusive. Electrophysiological studies in rodents offer a useful starting point for …

It is well accepted that recognition memory reflects the contribution of two separable memory
retrieval processes, namely recollection and familiarity. However, fundamental questions …

Amnesic patients have a well established deficit in remembering their past experiences.
Surprisingly, however, the question as to whether such patients can imagine new …

It has recently been observed that the brain network supporting recall of episodic memories
shares much in common with other cognitive functions such as episodic future thinking …

A significant body of research in cognitive neuroscience is aimed at understanding how
object concepts are represented in the human brain. However, it remains unknown whether …

We currently lack a unified and mechanistic account of how the hippocampus supports a
range of disparate cognitive functions that includes episodic memory, imagining the future …