# Memory and Neural Mechanisms

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/memory-and-neural-mechanisms/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Description | This cluster of papers explores the neural mechanisms underlying memory formation, consolidation, reconsolidation, and retrieval, with a focus on the role of the hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex. It also delves into the neural basis of spatial navigation and the interplay between memory and navigation processes in the brain. |
| Domain | Life Sciences |
| Field | Neuroscience |
| OpenAlex ID | t10448 |
| Works | 303 |

## Topic papers all

Showing 15 of 303.

- [Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory](https://scholariq.org/papers/exercise-training-increases-size-of-hippocampus-and-improves-memory/)
- [Cognitive reserve in ageing and Alzheimer's disease](https://scholariq.org/papers/cognitive-reserve-in-ageing-and-alzheimer-s-disease/)
- [The Attention System of the Human Brain: 20 Years After](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-attention-system-of-the-human-brain-20-years-after/)
- [Dopamine, learning and motivation](https://scholariq.org/papers/dopamine-learning-and-motivation/)
- [Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers](https://scholariq.org/papers/navigation-related-structural-change-in-the-hippocampi-of-taxi-drivers/)
- [Parameterizing neural power spectra into periodic and aperiodic components](https://scholariq.org/papers/parameterizing-neural-power-spectra-into-periodic-and-aperiodic-components/)
- [Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala](https://scholariq.org/papers/impaired-recognition-of-emotion-in-facial-expressions-following-bilateral-damage/)
- [Brain structural and functional abnormalities in mood disorders: implications for neurocircuitry models of depression](https://scholariq.org/papers/brain-structural-and-functional-abnormalities-in-mood-disorders-implications-for/)
- [Neurobiology of emotion perception I: the neural basis of normal emotion perception](https://scholariq.org/papers/neurobiology-of-emotion-perception-i-the-neural-basis-of-normal-emotion/)
- [For better or for worse: neural systems supporting the cognitive down- and up-regulation of negative emotion](https://scholariq.org/papers/for-better-or-for-worse-neural-systems-supporting-the-cognitive-down-and-up/)
- [A mutation in a case of early onset narcolepsy and a generalized absence of hypocretin peptides in human narcoleptic brains](https://scholariq.org/papers/a-mutation-in-a-case-of-early-onset-narcolepsy-and-a-generalized-absence-of/)
- [Functional Connectivity: The Principal-Component Analysis of Large (PET) Data Sets](https://scholariq.org/papers/functional-connectivity-the-principal-component-analysis-of-large-pet-data-sets/)
- [Characterization of the decision-making deficit of patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions](https://scholariq.org/papers/characterization-of-the-decision-making-deficit-of-patients-with-ventromedial/)
- [The cholinergic system in the pathophysiology and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-cholinergic-system-in-the-pathophysiology-and-treatment-of-alzheimer-s/)
- [Building Memories: Remembering and Forgetting of Verbal Experiences as Predicted by Brain Activity](https://scholariq.org/papers/building-memories-remembering-and-forgetting-of-verbal-experiences-as-predicted/)

## Topic primary papers

Showing 15 of 81.

- [Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers](https://scholariq.org/papers/navigation-related-structural-change-in-the-hippocampi-of-taxi-drivers/)
- [Double Dissociation of Conditioning and Declarative Knowledge Relative to the Amygdala and Hippocampus in Humans](https://scholariq.org/papers/double-dissociation-of-conditioning-and-declarative-knowledge-relative-to-the/)
- [The Human Amygdala: An Evolved System for Relevance Detection](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-human-amygdala-an-evolved-system-for-relevance-detection/)
- [Theory of mind in patients with frontal variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: theoretical and practical implications](https://scholariq.org/papers/theory-of-mind-in-patients-with-frontal-variant-frontotemporal-dementia-and/)
- [Cortical projections arising from the basal forebrain: A study of cholinergic and noncholinergic components employing combined retrograde tracing and immunohistochemical localization of choline acetyltransferase](https://scholariq.org/papers/cortical-projections-arising-from-the-basal-forebrain-a-study-of-cholinergic-and/)
- [The Episodic Memory System: Neurocircuitry and Disorders](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-episodic-memory-system-neurocircuitry-and-disorders/)
- [Age-Related Reductions in Human Recognition Memory Due to Impaired Encoding](https://scholariq.org/papers/age-related-reductions-in-human-recognition-memory-due-to-impaired-encoding/)
- [Direct recordings of grid-like neuronal activity in human spatial navigation](https://scholariq.org/papers/direct-recordings-of-grid-like-neuronal-activity-in-human-spatial-navigation/)
- [The origins of cholinergic and other subcortical afferents to the thalamus in the rat](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-origins-of-cholinergic-and-other-subcortical-afferents-to-the-thalamus-in/)
- [Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus of the rat: Cytoarchitecture, cytochemistry, and some extrapyramidal connections of the mesopontine tegmentum](https://scholariq.org/papers/pedunculopontine-tegmental-nucleus-of-the-rat-cytoarchitecture-cytochemistry-and/)
- [Face encoding and recognition in the human brain.](https://scholariq.org/papers/face-encoding-and-recognition-in-the-human-brain/)
- [Both the Hippocampus and Striatum Are Involved in Consolidation of Motor Sequence Memory](https://scholariq.org/papers/both-the-hippocampus-and-striatum-are-involved-in-consolidation-of-motor/)
- [Considering the role of semantic memory in episodic future thinking: evidence from semantic dementia](https://scholariq.org/papers/considering-the-role-of-semantic-memory-in-episodic-future-thinking-evidence/)
- [Altered fear learning across development in both mouse and human](https://scholariq.org/papers/altered-fear-learning-across-development-in-both-mouse-and-human/)
- [Effect of alcohol use on the adolescent brain and behavior](https://scholariq.org/papers/effect-of-alcohol-use-on-the-adolescent-brain-and-behavior/)

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