Nature Neuroscience 9, 489 - 491 (2006)
Published online: 26 February 2006; | doi:10.1038/nn1663
Brain activity before an event predicts later recollectionLeun J Otten1, Angela H Quayle1, Sarah Akram1, Thomas A Ditewig1
& Michael D Rugg21
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University College London (UCL), 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK. 2
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-3800, USA.
Correspondence should be addressed to Leun J Otten l.otten@ucl.ac.uk 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.
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