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Recollection and prior knowledge recruit the left angular gyrus during recognition

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The human angular gyrus (AG) is implicated in recollection, or the ability to retrieve detailed memory content from a specific episode. A separate line of research examining the neural bases of more general mnemonic representations, extracted over multiple episodes, also highlights the AG as a core region of interest. To reconcile these separate views of AG function, the present fMRI experiment used a Remember-Know paradigm with famous (prior knowledge) and non-famous (no prior knowledge) faces to test whether AG activity could be modulated by both task-specific recollection and general prior knowledge within the same individuals. Increased BOLD activity in the left AG was observed during both recollection in the absence of prior knowledge (recollected > non-recollected or correctly rejected non-famous faces) and when prior knowledge was accessed in the absence of experiment-specific recollection (famous > non-famous correct rejections). This pattern was most prominent for the left AG as compared to the broader inferior parietal lobe. Recollection-related responses in the left AG increased with encoding duration and prior knowledge, despite prior knowledge being incidental to the recognition decision. Overall, the left AG appears sensitive to both task-specific recollection and the incidental access of general prior knowledge, thus broadening our notions of the kinds of mnemonic representations that drive activity in this region.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Rania Mansour for her help with stimulus collection, Ali Golestani and Priya Abraham for their assistance at the Toronto Neuroimaging (ToNI) centre, and Marilyne Ziegler for her assistance with Eprime. The authors would also like to thank Bradley Buchsbaum, Michael D. Rugg, Zhong-Xu Liu, Nick Diamond, Vincent Man, Jessica Robin, Tarek Amer and Iva Brunec for helpful discussions about these data.

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This work was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) grant (No. A8347 to M.M.), a Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Foundation Grant (No. MOP-143311 to C.L.G.), and scholarships awarded from NSERC and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship program (to B.B.).

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    Buddhika Bellana, Morris Moscovitch & Cheryl L. Grady

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Bellana, B., Ladyka-Wojcik, N., Lahan, S. et al. Recollection and prior knowledge recruit the left angular gyrus during recognition. Brain Struct Funct 228, 197–217 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-022-02597-5

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