Neural correlates of context memory
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A functional neuroimaging study acquiring fMRI recordings of neural activation in healthy participants during retrieval of contextual and temporal information from memory
IRAS ID
170850
Contact name
Bjorn Persson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of St Andrews
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
This study will involve the recording of brain activity in healthy participants via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). It will take place at the Clinical Research Centre, Ninewells, Dundee, and aims to examine the neural processes engaged when disambiguating past episodes in memory using information about contextual or temporal details surrounding an event. Utilising fMRI's capacity to accurately localise activations to specific brain regions allows examination of any dissociation in the underlying neural mechanisms involved in separating events in memory using these types of information. This study has the potential to further our knowledge in how past events are disambiguated in memory and to inform models of episodic memory used to study both normal memory function as well as pathological memory dysfunction in which episodic memory tends to be compromised, as observed in forms of dementia.
REC name
East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1
REC reference
15/ES/0078
Date of REC Opinion
2 Jul 2015
REC opinion
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