ABSTRACT
In this section, we briefly review what we see as the more important of the findings to have emerged from PET and blocked fMRI studies of episodic retrieval. In these studies, several regions have been consistently reported to be active when participants engage in an episodic retrieval task relative to a non-episodic control task. Chief among these regions are dorsolateral and anterior prefrontal cortex, and medial and lateral parietal cortex. It is noteworthy that, on the basis of “classical” findings from human and animal neuropsychology, most of these regions would not be regarded as playing a central role in episodic memory.
