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Investigating the functional utility of the left parietal ERP old/new effect : brain activity predicts within but not between participant variance in episodic recollection

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05/12/2017
Author
MacLeod, Catherine A.
Donaldson, David I.
Keywords
Episodic memory
Event-related potential (ERP)
Individual differences
Left parietal effect
Recollection
RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
BF Psychology
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Neurology
Psychiatry and Mental health
Biological Psychiatry
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Abstract
A success story within neuroimaging has been the discovery of distinct neural correlates of episodic retrieval, providing insight into the processes that support memory for past life events. Here we focus on one commonly reported neural correlate, the left parietal old/new effect, a positive going modulation seen in event-related potential (ERP) data that is widely considered to index episodic recollection. Substantial evidence links changes in the size of the left parietal effect to changes in remembering, but the precise functional utility of the effect remains unclear. Here, using forced choice recognition of verbal stimuli, we present a novel population level test of the hypothesis that the magnitude of the left parietal effect correlates with memory performance. We recorded ERPs during old/new recognition, source accuracy and Remember/Know/Guess tasks in two large samples of healthy young adults, and successfully replicated existing within participant modulations of the magnitude of the left parietal effect with recollection. Critically, however, both datasets also show that across participants the magnitude of the left parietal effect does not correlate with behavioral measures of memory - including both subjective and objective estimates of recollection. We conclude that in these tasks, and across this healthy young adult population, the generators of the left parietal ERP effect do not index performance as expected. Taken together, these novel findings provide important constraints on the functional interpretation of the left parietal effect, suggesting that between group differences in the magnitude of old/new effects cannot always safely be used to infer differences in recollection.
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MacLeod , C A & Donaldson , D I 2017 , ' Investigating the functional utility of the left parietal ERP old/new effect : brain activity predicts within but not between participant variance in episodic recollection ' , Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , vol. 11 , 580 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00580
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00580
ISSN
1662-5161
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2017 MacLeod and Donaldson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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The work was funded by the United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant PTA-030-2006-00337.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18877

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