The town meeting, an annual exercise in which residents gather to vote on things like fire department budgets and municipal policy, requires about 1,000 signatures to place a binding item on the agenda.
This pattern suggests that the PrC contributions to memory encoding may be domain-specific and limited to the binding of items with presented item-related features.
The later part of the oscillations is likely related to binding auditory items into an auditory object.
These regions are involved in binding and retrieving item-item or item-context associations or controlling and monitoring these processes [ 5– 8].
In other words, the overall effects of the distractor in binding an item with context may have greatly outweighed the difference between semantic versus non-semantic characteristics of distractors with regard to source memory formation.
Such errors led computational models of memory to highlight the contribution of binding each item to its context for successful memory retrieval, regardless of retention duration (Burgess and Hitch, 2005).
The current fMRI study investigates this issue further by directly comparing intrinsic intra-item binding (object/colour), extrinsic intra-item binding (object/location), and inter-item binding (object/object).
In the present study, we used a delayed-match-to-sample (DMS) task, comparing an intrinsic intra-item binding condition (object/colour), an extrinsic intra-item binding condition (object/location), and a between-domain inter-item binding condition (object/object), with a non-binding condition as baseline.
If on the other hand the integration of representations does not overlap as a result of feature characteristics that crucially recruit the MTL, one would expect that both the extrinsic intra-item binding and the between-domain inter-item conditions activate the MTL.
Since the MTL is particularly important for spatial associations, one can on the one hand expect this region to be activated more in the extrinsic intra-item binding condition (object/location) than in the intrinsic intra-item (object/colour) and the between-domain inter-item (object/object) conditions.
