Cornelia McCormick

This study uses fMRI and DCM to analyze effective connectivity in the vmPFC-hippocampus-precuneus network during memory and imagination tasks, revealing task-specific patterns of neural interaction.

This study investigates how blindness affects mental time travel, finding that blind individuals construct mental experiences differently than sighted people, relying on conceptual strategies rather than visual imagery.

This study investigates the neural patterns involved in constructing temporally extended mental events using fMRI, identifying a shared network involving the vmPFC, hippocampus, and posterior neocortex with hierarchical contributions.

The paper investigates the role of the vmPFC in representing imagery-rich mental scenarios using fMRI and MVPA, finding it encodes detailed visual content beyond abstract representations.

This study investigates how hippocampal-occipital connectivity relates to autobiographical memory deficits in aphantasia, finding reduced hippocampal activation and altered connectivity in aphantasics.

This study uses 7T fMRI to show that all hippocampal subfields are involved in autobiographical memory retrieval, but the pre/parasubiculum in the anterior body is uniquely connected to AM-related brain regions and may support scene-based cognition.

This study investigates the hippocampal response to scene processing, finding it is more active for naturalistic scenes than scrambled ones, with distinct regions involved in color and layout detection, and no effect of scene complexity.

This study investigates the interaction between the hippocampus and vmPFC during autobiographical memory recall, finding that vmPFC drives hippocampal activity regardless of memory remoteness.

The paper examines functional connectivity patterns of human hippocampal subfields along the anterior-posterior axis using resting state fMRI, finding differences in connectivity between subfield portions and with neighboring cortices.

This study uses a mental imagery paradigm and high-resolution fMRI to show that different parts of the hippocampus are involved in scene construction versus associative processing, indicating heterogeneity in its function.

This study investigates mind-wandering in individuals with hippocampal damage, finding that while frequency is similar to controls, the content and form of mind-wandering are altered.