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Cerebral Cortex 2005 15(8):1155-1161; doi:10.1093/cercor/bhh215
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Psychological Structure and Neural Correlates of Event Knowledge

Jacqueline N. Wood, Kristine M. Knutson and Jordan Grafman

Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Address correspondence to Jordan Grafman, Chief, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Building 10/Room 5C205, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-1440, USA. Email: grafmanj{at}ninds.nih.gov.

Humans are capable of storing and retrieving sequences of complex structured events. Here we report a study in which we establish the psychological structure of event knowledge and then use parametric event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify its neural correlates. We demonstrate that event knowledge is organized along dissociable dimensions that are reflected in distinctive patterns of neural activation: social valence (amygdala and right orbitofrontal cortex), experience (medial prefrontal cortex) and engagement (left orbitofrontal cortex). Our study affirms the importance and uniqueness of the human prefrontal cortex in representing event knowledge.

Key Words: amygdala • functional MRI • multidimensional scaling • prefrontal cortex • scripts


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