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SUBMITTER: Voss JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3057495 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Voss Joel L JL Gonsalves Brian D BD Federmeier Kara D KD Tranel Daniel D Cohen Neal J NJ
Nature neuroscience 20101121 1
Exploratory behaviors during learning determine what is studied and when, helping to optimize subsequent memory performance. To elucidate the cognitive and neural determinants of exploratory behaviors, we manipulated the control that human subjects had over the position of a moving window through which they studied objects and their locations. Our behavioral, neuropsychological and neuroimaging data indicate that volitional control benefits memory performance and is linked to a brain network tha ...[more]