scholarly journals Working memory, long-term memory, and medial temporal lobe function

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Jeneson ◽  
L. R. Squire
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Term Memory

Distinct neural correlates of associative working memory and long-term memory encoding in the medial temporal lobe

NeuroImage ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 989-997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko C. Bergmann ◽  
Mark Rijpkema ◽  
Guillén Fernández ◽  
Roy P.C. Kessels
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Memory Encoding ◽  
Term Memory

scholarly journals Interaction of Working Memory and Long-Term Memory in the Medial Temporal Lobe

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 2868-2878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai Axmacher ◽  
Daniel P. Schmitz ◽  
Ilona Weinreich ◽  
Christian E. Elger ◽  
Juergen Fell
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Term Memory

scholarly journals The Medial Temporal Lobe Is Critical for Spatial Relational Perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 1780-1795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Ruiz ◽  
Michael R. Meager ◽  
Sachin Agarwal ◽  
Mariam Aly
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
Attention Tasks ◽  
Human Participants ◽  
Attention And Perception

The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is traditionally considered to be a system that is specialized for long-term memory. Recent work has challenged this notion by demonstrating that this region can contribute to many domains of cognition beyond long-term memory, including perception and attention. One potential reason why the MTL (and hippocampus specifically) contributes broadly to cognition is that it contains relational representations—representations of multidimensional features of experience and their unique relationship to one another—that are useful in many different cognitive domains. Here, we explore the hypothesis that the hippocampus/MTL plays a critical role in attention and perception via relational representations. We compared human participants with MTL damage to healthy age- and education-matched individuals on attention tasks that varied in relational processing demands. On each trial, participants viewed two images (rooms with paintings). On “similar room” trials, they judged whether the rooms had the same spatial layout from a different perspective. On “similar art” trials, they judged whether the paintings could have been painted by the same artist. On “identical” trials, participants simply had to detect identical paintings or rooms. MTL lesion patients were significantly and selectively impaired on the similar room task. This work provides further evidence that the hippocampus/MTL plays a ubiquitous role in cognition by virtue of its relational and spatial representations and highlights its important contributions to rapid perceptual processes that benefit from attention.

scholarly journals The medial temporal lobe is critical for spatial relational perception

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Ruiz ◽  
Michael R. Meager ◽  
Sachin Agarwal ◽  
Mariam Aly
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
Attention Tasks ◽  
Human Participants ◽  
Attention And Perception

AbstractThe medial temporal lobe (MTL) is traditionally considered to be a system that is specialized for long-term memory. Recent work has challenged this notion by demonstrating that this region can contribute to many domains of cognition beyond long-term memory, including perception and attention. One potential reason why the MTL (and hippocampus specifically) contributes broadly to cognition is that it contains relational representations — representations of multidimensional features of experience and their unique relationship to one another — that are useful in many different cognitive domains. Here, we explore the hypothesis that the hippocampus/MTL plays a critical role in attention and perception via relational representations. We compared human participants with MTL damage to healthy age- and education-matched individuals on attention tasks that varied in relational processing demands. On each trial, participants viewed two images (rooms with paintings). On ‘similar room’ trials, they judged whether the rooms had the same spatial layout from a different perspective. On ‘similar art’ trials, they judged whether the paintings could have been painted by the same artist. On ‘identical’ trials, participants simply had to detect identical paintings or rooms. Patients were significantly and selectively impaired on the similar room task. This work provides further evidence that the hippocampus/MTL plays a ubiquitous role in cognition by virtue of its relational and spatial representations, and highlights its important contributions to rapid perceptual processes that benefit from attention.

Long-term versus short-term memory deficits for faces in temporal lobe and generalized epilepsy patients

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 574-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIRSTEN HÖTTING ◽  
TALL KATZ-BILETZKY ◽  
THOMAS MALINA ◽  
MATTHIAS LINDENAU ◽  
THOMAS BENGNER
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Memory Systems ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Generalized Epilepsy

AbstractIt is still an open question whether short-term and long-term memory are two anatomically dissociable memory systems working in parallel or whether they are represented by neural circuits within similar cortical areas. Epilepsy may be used as a model to study these memory processes. We hypothesized that a double dissociation of short-term and long-term memory exists in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). Immediate and 24-hour face recognition was tested in 10 TLE patients, 9 IGE patients, and 10 healthy controls. TLE patients’ immediate recognition was unimpaired, but their memory scores were reduced as compared to healthy controls after 24 hours. In IGE patients, memory was already reduced during immediate recognition. These results are in line with the idea that short-term memory is a transient trace that requires consolidation supported by the medial temporal lobe to change into a more stable status of long-term memory. (JINS, 2010, 16, 574–578.)

scholarly journals At the interface of visual perception and long-term memory: Object knowledge and the medial temporal lobe

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 926-926
Author(s):  
M. F. Bonner ◽  
A. R. Price ◽  
J. E. Peelle ◽  
M. Grossman
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Object Knowledge ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Memory Object

Temporal lobe speech perception systems are part of the verbal working memory circuit: Evidence from two recent fMRI studies

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 740-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Hickok ◽  
Bradley Buchsbaum
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Verbal Working Memory ◽  
Active State ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Memory Circuit ◽  
Weak Evidence

In the verbal domain, there is only very weak evidence favoring the view that working memory is an active state of long-term memory. We strengthen existing evidence by reviewing two recent fMRI studies of verbal working memory, which clearly demonstrate activation in the superior temporal lobe, a region known to be involved in processing speech during comprehension tasks.

scholarly journals Single-Item and Associative Working Memory in Stroke Patients

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie van Geldorp ◽  
Roy P. C. Kessels ◽  
Marc P. H. Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
Binding Condition ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Single Feature

In this study, we examined working memory performance of stroke patients. A previous study assessing amnesia patients found deficits on an associative working memory task, although standard neuropsychological working memory tests did not detect any deficits. We now examine whether this may be the case for stoke patients as well. The current task contained three conditions: one spatial condition, one object condition and one binding condition in which both object and location had to be remembered. In addition, subsequent long-term memory was assessed. The results indicate that our sample of stroke patients shows a working memory deficit, but only on the single-feature conditions. The binding condition was more difficult than both single-feature conditions, but patients performed equally well as compared to matched healthy controls. No deficits were found on the subsequent long-term memory task. These results suggest that associative working memory may be mediated by structures of the medial temporal lobe.

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