Anterior hippocampus: the anatomy of perception, imagination and episodic memory.

ABSTRACT: The brain creates a model of the world around us. We can use this representation to perceive and comprehend what we see at any given moment, but also to vividly re-experience scenes from our past and imagine future (or even fanciful) scenarios. Recent work has shown that these cognitive functions--perception, imagination and recall of scenes and events--all engage the anterior hippocampus. In this Opinion article, we capitalize on new findings from functional neuroimaging to propose a model that links high-level cognitive functions to specific structures within the anterior hippocampus.

SUBMITTER: Zeidman P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5358751 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature