ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the current techniques have taken the field a long way in understanding the brain networks underlying numerous forms of cognition including autobiographical memory. An autobiographical memory is, then, usually a construction that features some conceptual knowledge and an episodic memory or memories. It will thus entail activation of brain areas where these types of knowledge are stored, some bringing together of various knowledge types, activation of areas in which visual images can be represented, and perhaps activation of some emotions. The triune brain model is no longer greatly used in neuroscience, in part because it has been found that these three very large brain areas contain structures that are found in many mammals of old or ancient lineages and so mapping of brain structures in terms of evolutionary history is not so straight forward. The nature of these networks and their various functions in this overall autobiographical memory network are considered in detail in Svoboda et al.
