Neural Correlates of Memory Conflict v1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
An fMRI Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Memory Conflict
IRAS ID
200035
Contact name
Akira O'Connor
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
This functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) research will be conducted on healthy young participants and will take place at the Clinical Research Centre, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. We will investigate how the brain networks involved in memory and attention become activated during memory tasks in which participants are faced with conflicting internal evaluations of whether a stimulus is old (recognised) or new (not recognised). This is the first time a task known to generate dissociative memory experiences (e.g. déjà vu, during which clashing evaluations of familiarity and novelty are experienced for a stimulus), developed recently within my laboratory, will have been scanned. It therefore has the potential to yield new insights into the neural structures that support the different stages involved in resolving memory conflict. In particular, this research will allow us to localise brain networks that track two separate components of dissociative memory experiences: 1) memory retrieval (the unconscious processes of remembering); and 2) awareness of memory (conscious signalling of the results of these unconscious retrieval processes).
REC name
East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 2
REC reference
16/ES/0032
Date of REC Opinion
4 Mar 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion