Event Abstract Back to Event European DANA Alliance for the Brain Public Lecture Memory circuits in the brain Michael Petrides1, 2* 1 Montreal Neurological Institute, Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Canada 2 McGill University, Department of Psychology, Canada The first part of this lecture for the general public will review evidence, at the systems level, obtained from lesion studies in human subjects and macaque monkeys which shows that information perceived and interpreted in posterior temporal and parietal cortical areas must interact with the limbic structures of the medial temporal lobe if long-term storage of information is to be achieved. The second part of the lecture will focus on the special contribution of the lateral frontal cortex presenting evidence that basic memory encoding and storage can proceed normally after damage to the lateral prefrontal cortex, but that the prefrontal cortex plays a special role in the active controlled retrieval of specific aspects of information in working memory, namely the isolation of information from memory that cannot be retrieved automatically. Conference: 41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting, Rhodes Island, Greece, 13 Sep - 18 Sep, 2009. Presentation Type: Oral Presentation Topic: Plenary lectures Citation: Petrides M (2009). European DANA Alliance for the Brain Public Lecture Memory circuits in the brain. Conference Abstract: 41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.08.2009.09.008 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 04 Jun 2009; Published Online: 04 Jun 2009. * Correspondence: Michael Petrides, Montreal Neurological Institute, Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Montréal, Canada, michael.petrides@mcgill.ca Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Michael Petrides Google Michael Petrides Google Scholar Michael Petrides PubMed Michael Petrides Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.