The authors instead suggest that the hippocampus and the perirhinal cortex both play a role in recollection and familiarity, and that these two regions of the medial temporal lobe differ mainly in ...

More information: Arunima Kapoor et al, Association of Medial Temporal Lobe Cerebrovascular Reactivity and Memory Function in Older Adults With and Without Cognitive Impairment, Neurology (2025).

When it comes to tau tangles, cortical deposits receive the lion’s share of scientists’ attention, but it is the tiny subcortical regions where tangles originate that might set the course for ...

The temporal lobes, located on the side of the head above ... visual processing for object and pattern recognition; and the medial and anterior regions are involved in visual recognition depending ...

We reported that neurons in the human medial temporal lobe discriminate objects from faces 21. Here we further investigated visual response properties and showed that single neurons respond ...

Producing and storing an episodic memory crucially depends on two parts of the brain, the medial temporal lobes and the frontal lobes.” The medial temporal cortex (the inner part of the brain ...

2008;8(12):1879-1891. Cognitive neuroscientists have explored several types of episodic memory supported by the medial temporal lobes. Recall and recognition represent the two quintessential tests ...