Bases neuropsicológicas de la memoria autobiográfica

This paper identifies the main characteristics attributed by recent models of autobiographical memory, framed in a reconstructive view of memory. Here we review the neuroimaging studies that have explored the neural substrates that participate in the autobiographical retrieval processes, identifying regions associated with the access and processing of memories and recollective experience, traditionally associated with visual components, and sensory and contextual details, emotional experience and feel yourself moving in time, autonoetic feature of con- sciousness. All the studies reviewed points to the involvement of a wide network of subsystems that show a joint coactivation during the retrieval process, including cortical structures and temporal lobe regions.