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Cognitive Association Formation in Human Memory Revealed by Spatiotemporal Brain Imaging
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Cognitive Association Formation in Human Memory Revealed by Spatiotemporal Brain Imaging

John Kounios, Roderick W Smith, Wei Yang, Peter Bachman and Mark D'Esposito
Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.), v 29(1), pp 297-306
2001
PMID: 11182100
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S0896-6273(01)00199-4View
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Abstract

Cognitive theory posits association by juxtaposition or by fusion. We employed the measurement of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to a concept fusion task in order to explore memory encoding of these two types of associations between word pairs, followed by a memory test for original pair order. Encoding processes were isolated by subtracting fusion task ERPs corresponding to pairs later retrieved quickly from ERPs corresponding to pairs later retrieved slowly, separately for pairs fused successfully and unsuccessfully (i.e., juxtaposed). Analyses revealed that the encoding of these two types of associations yields different ERP voltage polarities, scalp topographies, and brain sources extending over the entire time course of processing.

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