title: 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.
authors: Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Zeidman
authors: Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.
authors: Eleanor A
authors: EA
authors: Maguire
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology*; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*