Functional Brain Activity within the Medial and Lateral Portion of BA10 during a Prospective Memory Task

Barban, Francesco; Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto; Macaluso, Emiliano; Caltagirone, Carlo; Costa, Alberto

doi:https://doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2012-129012

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Volume 26 | Article ID 546823 | https://doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2012-129012

Functional Brain Activity within the Medial and Lateral Portion of BA10 during a Prospective Memory Task

Francesco Barban,^1,2Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo,^1,3Emiliano Macaluso,²Carlo Caltagirone,^1,3and Alberto Costa¹

Received21 May 2012

Accepted21 May 2012

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.

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