Cognitive neuroscience of episodic memory

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Episodic memory denotes a memory system specialized for events and their specific context including time and space. This memory system relies on multiple brain regions including the hippocampus and other medial temporal lobe structures, the prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex among other regions. In the past few years and with funding from NSERC, my students and I have been exploring multiple dimensions of this episodic memory system using a cognitive neuroscientific approach. Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), we have examined neural correlates of memory interference (Lepage et al., 2005; Blondin et al., 2008) associative and item memory (Achim et al., 2005; 2006; 2008), emotional memory (Sergerie 2005; 2006; 2007; Harvey 2007), perceptual priming (Blondin 2005), and more recently memory for actions (Pelletier et al., in preparation).