Brain activity before an event predicts later recollection.
Neural activity elicited by an event can predict whether the event is successfully encoded into memory. Here we assessed whether memory encoding relies not only on neural activity that follows an event, but also on activity that precedes it. In two experiments we found that human brain activity elicited by a cue presented just before a word could predict whether the word would be recollected in a later memory test.
Otten
Leun J
LJ
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK. l.otten@ucl.ac.uk
Quayle
Angela H
AH
Akram
Sarah
S
Ditewig
Thomas A
TA
Rugg
Michael D
MD
D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests