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6 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The Brain's Default Network

   Buckner, Andrews‐Hanna and Schacter · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2008

   A review of thirty years of brain imaging work, arguing the default network is a distinct brain system for internal thought, made up of interacting subsystems, with relevance to several mental disorders.

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   1. UncheckedThe brain's default network is active during internally focused tasks such as recalling personal memories, imagining the future and thinking about others' perspectives.“Providing insight into function, the default network is active when individuals are engaged in internally focused tasks including autobiographical memory retrieval, envisioning the future, and conceiving the perspectives of others.”
   2. UncheckedA part of the default network in the medial temporal lobe supplies memories and associations that the paper describes as the building blocks of mental simulation.“The medial temporal lobe subsystem provides information from prior experiences in the form of memories and associations that are the building blocks of mental simulation.”
   3. UncheckedTwo subsystems of the brain's default network are described as meeting at key integration points, including the posterior cingulate cortex.“These two subsystems converge on important nodes of integration including the posterior cingulate cortex.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A human memory circuit derived from brain lesions causing amnesia

   Ferguson, Lim, Cooke et al. · Nature Communications · 2019

   The authors derived a human memory circuit from 53 stroke case reports of amnesia plus a connectome map, and tested how well it predicts memory scores and aligns with other memory-related findings.

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   1. UncheckedThe memory circuit derived from lesions causing amnesia has its central hub where the presubiculum meets the retrosplenial cortex.“Its hub is at the junction of the presubiculum and retrosplenial cortex.”
   2. UncheckedBrain regions connected to one spot, at the presubiculum–retrosplenial cortex junction, form a circuit that includes over 95% of lesions causing amnesia.“Connectivity with this single location defines a human brain circuit that incorporates > 95% of lesions causing amnesia.”
   3. UncheckedThe extent to which a brain lesion overlaps a derived memory circuit is reported to predict memory scores in two separate patient datasets.“Lesion intersection with this circuit predicts memory scores in two independent datasets (N1 = 97, N2 = 176).”