Theoretical Considerations for The Possibility of Effective Memory Rehabilitation from The Cognitive Neuroscience Approach

Abstract

  Previous studies have developed the methods of effective memory rehabilitation. In this article, I briefly reviewed those methods and provided two ideas based on the recent studies from the cognitive neuroscience approaches to human memory. The first perspective highlights the memory functions in the medial parietal areas, which include the precuneus and the retrosplenial cortex. Particularly, the encoding / retrieval flip could be a key phenomena for considering the effect of memory rehabilitation. The second perspective regards the possibility of physical exercise and the sensitivities to autonomic bodily changes (interoception) on memory performance. Finally, I summarized to propose the idea that the development of effective memory rehabilitation methods could be based on the indirect cognitive functions besides memory processing.