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Cortical network dynamics during source memory retrieval: Current density imaging with individual MRI.

Kim YY, Roh AY, Namgoong Y, Jo HJ, Lee JM, Kwon JS

BK21 Research Division of Human Life Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

We investigated the neural correlates of source memory retrieval using low-resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) with 64 channels EEG and individual MRI as a realistic head model. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while 13 healthy subjects performed the source memory task for the voice of the speaker in spoken words. The source correct condition of old words elicited more positive-going potentials than the correct rejection condition of new words at 400-700 ms post-stimulus and the old/new effects also appeared in the right anterior region between 1,000 and 1,200 ms. We conducted source reconstruction at mean latencies of 311, 604, 793, and 1,100 ms and used statistical parametric mapping for the statistical analysis. The results of source analysis suggest that the activation of the right inferior parietal region may reflect retrieval of source information. The source elicited by the difference ERPs between the source correct and source incorrect conditions exhibited dynamic change of current density activation in the overall cortices with time during source memory retrieval. These results indicate that multiple neural systems may underlie the ability to recollect context. Hum Brain Mapp 2007. (c) 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Published 5 November 2007 in Hum Brain Mapp.
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