Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Reductions in cortical activity during priming.

Daniel L Schacter1, Gagan S Wig, W Dale Stevens

  • 1Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02138, USA. dls@wjh.harvard.edu

Current Opinion in Neurobiology
|February 17, 2007
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Gaze patterns reveal attention-based modulation of lure discrimination.

Cognition·2026
Same author

Non-invasive MRI of choroid plexus vascular function.

Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)·2026
Same author

Correspondence of large-scale functional brain network decline across aging mice and humans.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2026
Same author

Systematic fMRI signal differences across cohorts alter lifespan connectome trajectories.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology·2026
Same author

Alzheimer's Imaging Consortium.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association·2025
Same author

Endel Tulving: An appreciation of his scientific contributions.

Neuropsychologia·2025
Same journal

Cichlid fish as a model for understanding social dysfunction.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
Same journal

On aims and methods in field neuroethology: Investigating neural mechanisms of behavior in semi-natural and natural contexts.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
Same journal

Neurobiological interfaces connecting environmental change to monarch butterfly migration.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
Same journal

Learning how to experience the world: From circuits to cell types to genes.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
Same journal

Optical voltage imaging: ready to spark systems neuroscience.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
Same journal

The neuroendocrine basis for parental care in teleost fish.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
See all related articles

Priming, a nonconscious memory effect, shows reduced brain activity. Specificity effects reveal cortical sensitivity, while activity reductions are robust in prefrontal but not posterior regions.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Neuroimaging

Background:

  • Priming is a nonconscious memory phenomenon where prior stimulus exposure influences subsequent responses.
  • Neuroimaging studies consistently demonstrate reduced cortical activity associated with behavioral priming.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent neuroimaging studies on priming, focusing on specificity effects and the correlation between behavioral priming and neural activity.
  • To investigate how changes in stimulus features or response requirements impact cortical sensitivity during priming.
  • To examine the consistency of reduced cortical activity during priming across different brain regions, particularly prefrontal and posterior areas.

Main Methods:

  • Review of recent neuroimaging studies examining behavioral priming.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Analysis of specificity effects related to changes in stimulus features or response mapping.
  • Correlation analysis between behavioral priming measures and neural activity reductions in cortical regions.

    • Main Results:

    • Specificity effects indicate cortical sensitivity to perceptual, conceptual, and stimulus-to-decision mapping properties of primed stimuli.
    • A robust correlation between behavioral priming and reduced activity is observed in prefrontal regions.
    • This correlation is less consistent or absent in posterior cortical regions.

    Conclusions:

    • Reduced cortical activity during priming likely involves at least two distinct neurobiological mechanisms.
    • Prefrontal cortex plays a significant role in mediating the neural correlates of priming.
    • Understanding these mechanisms enhances our knowledge of nonconscious memory processes.