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Published on: December 2, 2015
Functional brain activity within the medial and lateral portion of BA10 during a prospective memory task
Francesco Barban1, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, Emiliano Macaluso
1Clinical and Behavioural Neurology Laboratory, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy. f.barban@hsantalucia.it
Abstract:
In this study we tested the gateway hypothesis of Broadmann area 10 (BA10). With a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) protocol we manipulated the saliency--stimulus-oriented (SO) attending--and the memory load--stimulus-independent (SI) attending--during a prospective memory (PM) task. We found a significant main effect of the SO manipulation within the medial BA10 and a significant interaction between SI attending and PM task within the left lateral BA10. Our results give experimental support to the gateway hypothesis.
