PMID- 25859188 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20150410 LR - 20231111 IS - 1662-5137 (Print) IS - 1662-5137 (Electronic) IS - 1662-5137 (Linking) VI - 9 DP - 2015 TI - Hippocampal subfield and medial temporal cortical persistent activity during working memory reflects ongoing encoding. PG - 30 LID - 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00030 [doi] LID - 30 AB - Previous neuroimaging studies support a role for the medial temporal lobes in maintaining novel stimuli over brief working memory (WM) delays, and suggest delay period activity predicts subsequent memory. Additionally, slice recording studies have demonstrated neuronal persistent spiking in entorhinal cortex, perirhinal cortex (PrC), and hippocampus (CA1, CA3, subiculum). These data have led to computational models that suggest persistent spiking in parahippocampal regions could sustain neuronal representations of sensory information over many seconds. This mechanism may support both WM maintenance and encoding of information into long term episodic memory. The goal of the current study was to use high-resolution fMRI to elucidate the contributions of the MTL cortices and hippocampal subfields to WM maintenance as it relates to later episodic recognition memory. We scanned participants while they performed a delayed match to sample task with novel scene stimuli, and assessed their memory for these scenes post-scan. We hypothesized stimulus-driven activation that persists into the delay period-a putative correlate of persistent spiking-would predict later recognition memory. Our results suggest sample and delay period activation in the parahippocampal cortex (PHC), PrC, and subiculum (extending into DG/CA3 and CA1) was linearly related to increases in subsequent memory strength. These data extend previous neuroimaging studies that have constrained their analysis to either the sample or delay period by modeling these together as one continuous ongoing encoding process, and support computational frameworks that predict persistent activity underlies both WM and episodic encoding. FAU - Nauer, Rachel K AU - Nauer RK AD - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, Boston, MA USA ; Brain Plasticity and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA USA. FAU - Whiteman, Andrew S AU - Whiteman AS AD - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, Boston, MA USA. FAU - Dunne, Matthew F AU - Dunne MF AD - Brain Plasticity and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA USA. FAU - Stern, Chantal E AU - Stern CE AD - Brain Plasticity and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA USA. FAU - Schon, Karin AU - Schon K AD - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, Boston, MA USA ; Brain Plasticity and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA USA. LA - eng GR - K99 AG036845/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - P50 MH071702/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R00 AG036845/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - UL1 TR000157/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20150309 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Syst Neurosci JT - Frontiers in systems neuroscience JID - 101477946 PMC - PMC4372545 OTO - NOTNLM OT - delayed matching-to-sample OT - high-resolution fMRI OT - hippocampus OT - medial temporal lobes OT - working memory EDAT- 2015/04/11 06:00 MHDA- 2015/04/11 06:01 PMCR- 2015/01/01 CRDT- 2015/04/11 06:00 PHST- 2014/12/12 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/02/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/04/11 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/04/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/04/11 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2015/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00030 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Syst Neurosci. 2015 Mar 9;9:30. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00030. eCollection 2015.