title: Brain activity before an event predicts later recollection.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK. l.otten@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Leun J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Otten
authors.forename: Angela H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Quayle
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akram
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Ditewig
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Rugg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests