Blumenfeld Robert S, Ranganath Charan
Department of Psychology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, United States.
Center for Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
Handb Clin Neurol. 2019;163:221-235. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-804281-6.00012-4.
Recent research has demonstrated that the lateral prefrontal cortex is extensively involved in human memory, including working memory processes that support retention of information across short delays, and episodic long-term memory encoding and retrieval processes. This chapter reviews results from neuroimaging studies of memory, from noninvasive brain stimulation studies of memory, and from studies of memory in patients with prefrontal lesions. The available evidence is consistent with the idea that different prefrontal regions implement cognitive or executive control processes that support working memory and episodic long-term memory encoding and retrieval.
