ABSTRACT
Whereas the cognitive revolution of the mid-1900s gave rise to information processing accounts of memory, the recent advance of neuroimaging technologies has spurned a new revolution—the mapping of cognitive processes onto patterns of neural activity. This chapter reviews research aimed at measuring brain activity during true and false memory in converging associates tasks. Some exciting and intriguing findings have been made with these tasks, and many of them complement the findings from brain-dam-aged populations that were reviewed in the previous chapter (see Schacter & Slotnick, 2004, for additional review). However, it is important to keep in mind that the neuroimaging enterprise is still relatively young. New data acquisition and analyses methods are continually being developed, and the large number of technical assumptions force one to tread carefully. The interpretation of neuroimaging results depends heavily on an understanding of neuroanatomy and function, and, equally important, on an understanding of the information processing that occurs during the cognitive task.
