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ArticleNature communications2025

The anterior-posterior gradient of the fusiform gyrus modulates the transition between mnemonic and perceptual features during reminiscences.

Motong Yuan, Yanyan Li, Jing Wang, Yufei Cai, Wenya Yang, Mengyang Wang, Bo Zhang, Hongwei Sun, Guoming Luan, Georg Northoff and 1 more

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Motong Yuan *State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Yanyan Li *State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jing WangDepartment of Neurology, SanBo Brain Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Yufei CaiState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Wenya YangSchool of Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
Mengyang WangDepartment of Neurology, SanBo Brain Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Bo ZhangKey Laboratory of Brain Science, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China.
Hongwei SunSchool of Psychology, Shandong Second Medical University, Shandong, China.
Guoming LuanDepartment of Neurosurgery, SanBo Brain Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5084-2458
Georg NorthoffMind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, The Royal's Institute of Mental Health Research associated with The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5236-0951
Liang WangState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. lwang@psych.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9434-7571

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Abstract

Our cognition can be oriented either towards the external environment, as in perception, or towards our own self and its memories. However, the perception-memory continuum underlying the construction of memories remains unclear. Addressing this gap in our knowledge is the goal of our study; for that we uniquely investigate a rare mental phenomenon, namely internally- and externally-oriented reminiscences as manifest in memories and experiential hallucinations. To probe the causality of precisely located areas in eliciting and structuring such perceptual-mnemonic interactions, we studied a large sample of 335 patients with electrodes implanted across nearly the entire cortical surface, combining intracranial electrical stimulation (iES) and electrophysiological causal connectivity. We demonstrate that the likelihood of internally-oriented reminiscences was significantly higher during stimulation of the anterior fusiform gyrus. Conversely, externally-oriented hallucinations were far more likely to occur upon stimulation of the posterior fusiform gyrus. The probability of connections from regions outside the fusiform gyrus that displayed internally-oriented reminiscences to the fusiform gyrus decreased along the anterior-posterior axis. This suggests that an anterior-posterior gradient within the fusiform gyrus mediates an analogous external-internal perceptual-mnemonic continuum.

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MemoryMental RecallPerceptionTemporal LobeAdultBrain MappingElectric StimulationElectrodes, ImplantedFemaleHallucinationsHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedYoung Adult

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