our attempts to match memory performance across ieeg ( patient ) and fmri ( control ) groups ( by varying the number of sources , retention interval and encoding list length ; see methods ) were successful ( table 1 ) .
a  pr  measure ( probability of correct minus probability of incorrect  old 
decisions to studied items ) showed that overall recognition memory was significantly above chance ( 0 ) , ( fmri : pr = 70% ( + / 4 ) , t19 = 16.18 , p < .001 ; ieeg : pr = 62% ( + / 9 ) , t4 = 6.56 , p = .003 ) . pr for source recognition ( probability of correct minus incorrect source decisions to studied items excluding  do nt know  responses ) was also significantly above chance ( fmri : pr = 74% ( + / 6 ) , t19 = 13.46 , p < .001 ; ieeg : pr = 52% ( + / 8) , t4 = 6.15 , p = .004 ) .
no significant differences were observed in item- or source pr measures across fmri vs. ieeg groups ( both t23 < 1.63 , p > .11 ) . for further analyses , trials in which an item was recognized (  hit  ) , but either a  do nt know  response or an incorrect source response was given , were collapsed , and are referred to as  item recognition  ( ir ) .
mean reaction times ( rts ) for correct rejection ( cr ) , item recognition ( ir ) and source recognition ( sr ) are shown in table 1 .
all pairwise comparisons were significant ( fmri : all t19 > 3.47 , p < .01 ; ieeg : all t4 > 3.93 , p < .05 ) .
for all imaging analyses , we defined two memory effects of interest : ( i ) an  item effect  , i.e. , the difference between cr and ir , which emphasizes processes related to simple item recognition or novelty detection , while reducing the impact of target source retrieval ; ( ii ) a  source effect  , i.e. , the difference between sr and ir , which emphasizes processes related to retrieval of target source details , while reducing the impact of item recognition / novelty . for our fmri data , we first queried item- and source memory effects via a conventional analysis of the blood - oxygenation - level - dependent ( bold ) response based on an assumed haemodynamic response function ( hrf ) .
we extracted the mean parameter estimates across voxels within each region of interest ( roi ) , where rois were defined anatomically and separately for each participant , based on their structural mri ( fig .
no hemispheric differences were seen in this or any subsequent analysis ( see supplementary material ) , so the data reported here are averaged across left and right rois .
we found that both hippocampus and perirhinal cortex exhibited a significant item effect ( both t19 > 2.41 , p < .05 ) as well as a significant source effect ( both t19 > 2.18 , p < .05 ) , resulting in a 
as would be expected based on the above results , the integrated bold signal ( averaged from 3 - 9 sec post stimulus onset ) in both hippocampus and perirhinal cortex revealed a significant item effect ( both t19 > 2.91 , p < .01 ) as well as a significant source effect ( both t19 > 3.27 , p < .005 ) .
more critically , however , our data showed that these effects have different temporal characteristics within and across regions ( fig .
the item effect was delayed relative to the source effect , whereas in the perirhinal cortex , there was an early and transient item effect , together with a more sustained source effect .
these temporal dissociations within regions were confirmed by a repeated - measures anova with the factors effect ( item , source ) and time ( tr1 - 4 ) , which revealed significant effect x time interactions in both regions ( both f3,57 > 4.61 , p < .01 ) .
moreover , the bold data suggested that the sequence of item- and source effects differs across the two regions , as evidenced by a significant region x effect x time interaction ( f3,57 = 3.83 , p = .01 ) . comparing the latencies of each participant s effect peak ( using a non - parametric wilcoxon test )
, we observed that the perirhinal cortex item effect peaked significantly earlier than the hippocampal source effect ( p = .02 ) , whereas the perirhinal cortex source effect peaked significantly earlier than the hippocampal item effect ( p < .005 ) .
nonetheless , inferring the latency of neural activity from the temporal characteristics of the bold response is difficult ( given potential nonlinear neural - vascular mappings ) .
thus , to better explore the temporal profiles of memory signals in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex , we capitalized on the real - time resolution of the ieeg data .
in a first step , we defined two time windows of interest : an early window ranging from 250 - 750ms post stimulus onset that encompassed the initial peak responses in both hippocampus and perirhinal cortex when collapsing across conditions ( fig .
s1a ) , and a late window from 800 - 2000ms post stimulus onset that captured a sustained , second component in both regions ( fig .
( as in the fmri data , no hemispheric differences were seen ; supplementary material . ) in the hippocampus ( fig
. 3a ) , the early analysis window ( 250 - 750ms ) showed a significant source effect ( t4 = 4.88 , p = .008 ) , but no evidence of an item effect ( t4 = 0.05 , p = .960 ) . in the late analysis window ( 800 - 2000ms ) , the item effect was now significant ( t4 = 3.17 , p = .034 ) , whereas the source effect no longer reached significance ( t4 = 1.82 , p = .142 ) .
the late onset of the item effect suggests that this hippocampal response might reflect post - retrieval processes for new items , rather than the fast identification of old items that is expected by the behavioral evidence for rapid familiarity - based recognition . to assess
more directly whether the hippocampal item effect reflects post - retrieval processes , we compared item- and source effects in response - locked ( instead of stimulus - locked ) erps .
more specifically , we compared a 500ms time window from 750ms to 250ms with that from + 250ms to + 750ms , defined relative to the participants key - press on each trial .
results revealed an interaction between time window ( pre , post ) and effect ( item , source ) ( f1,4 = 11.07 , p = .029 ) , due to the pre - response window showing a source effect ( t4 = 3.49 , p = .025 ) , but no item effect ( t4 = 1.09 , p = .339 ) , and the post - response window showing an item effect ( t4 = 3.33 , p = .029 ) , but no source effect ( t4 = 0.95 , p = .398 ) .
this result suggests that the hippocampal source effect precedes the memory judgment , whereas the item effect only occurs after the memory judgment , and thus likely reflects processes such as incidental encoding of experimentally novel information ( see discussion ) . in the perirhinal cortex ( fig .
3b ) , the early time window ( 250 - 750ms ) showed both an item effect ( t4 = 5.82 , p = .004 ) and a source effect ( t4 = 3.20 , p = .033 ) . in the late time window ( 800 - 2000ms ) , the source effect was still significant ( t4 = 5.30 , p = .006 ) , whereas the item effect was not ( t4 = 0.34 , p = .752 ) . for the response - locked analysis
, there was - unlike in the hippocampus - no differential size of source- vs. item effects with respect to pre- vs. post - response time windows ( f1,4 = 0.12 , p = .743 ) ; only a main effect of time window ( f1,4 = 12.12 , p = .025 ) , reflecting the fact that the combined item- and source effects were stronger in the pre- than in the post - response time window .
however , only the source effect reached significance in the pre - response time window ( t4 = 7.46 , p = .002 ) , whereas the item effect did not ( t4 = 2.24 , p = .088 ) , suggesting that the source effect was sustained and terminated with the memory response compared to a rapid and transient item effect . to further investigate the latency of these effects , we calculated the earliest timepoint to show a reliable item and source effect within each region .
the first effect was an item effect in perirhinal cortex at 200ms post - stimulus onset .
next , we observed a source effect in the hippocampus at 250ms , followed by a source effect in perirhinal cortex at 400ms . a hippocampal item effect was first observed at 1050ms ( fig .
4 ) . in summary , although item- and source effects were indistinguishable within and across regions via conventional fmri analysis , time - resolved bold data showed that these effects can be temporally dissociated .
this dissociation was confirmed by the ieeg data : in the hippocampus , we observed an early source effect that terminated with the participants memory response , and an item effect that onset much later in the trial , after the memory decision had been made . in perirhinal
cortex , our data suggest that there might be two independent processes : a fast and transient item effect and a later - onsetting source effect that is sustained throughout the retrieval period and terminates with participants memory decision .
thus , while both regions seem to conjointly support source retrieval ( see below ) , the item effect appears to reflect different processes in each case : a fast novelty signal in perirhinal cortex and a late , post - retrieval encoding process in the hippocampus . to test the notion that successful source retrieval is accompanied by
increased functional coupling across hippocampus and perirhinal cortex , we conducted connectivity analyses in both fmri and ieeg data . for the fmri data , we used a psychophysiological interaction ( ppi ) analysis ( see methods ) . using the individually- and
anatomically - defined hippocampi as seed regions , a set of bilateral perirhinal cortex clusters emerged showing greater functional coupling with the hippocampus during sr vs. ir ( pcorrected = .042 ; fig .
no differences in hippocampal - perirhinal coupling were observed for the item effect ( cr vs. ir ) at p < .001 , uncorrected . for the ieeg data
, we conducted spectral coherence analysis ( see methods for details ) . for the comparison of sr vs. ir , this analysis revealed two clusters (
p < .05 , corrected via a cluster - based statistic across time and frequencies ; see methods ) in which coherence differed significantly across conditions ( fig .
first , sr showed significantly greater coherence between hippocampus and perirhinal cortex in the low gamma band ( 30 - 35 hz ) from ~700 to 800 ms .
second , we observed increased coherence for ir  or , conversely , increased decoupling for sr - between hippocampus and perirhinal cortex in the alpha band ( 8 - 12 hz ) from ~500 to 900 ms . because the temporal resolution of spectral analysis is inferior to that of erps we refrain from making strong conclusions about the timing of these gamma- and alpha - coupling effects , but it is worth noting that both effects overlap in time and coincide with the period in which both regions show differential erps for sr vs. ir . the increase in low gamma coupling for successful source recognition is consistent with previous findings during successful relative to unsuccessful memory encoding , and the inverse alpha coupling effect ( greater for unsuccessful source recognition ) is interesting in light of the emerging role of alpha oscillations in functional inhibition of brain regions .
again , no changes in coherence were observed for cr vs. ir ( using the same statistical threshold as for sr vs. ir ) .
together , the fmri and ieeg connectivity results provide strong support for the notion that successful source retrieval is accompanied by an increase in functional coupling between hippocampus and perirhinal cortex .
our attempts to match memory performance across ieeg ( patient ) and fmri ( control ) groups ( by varying the number of sources , retention interval and encoding list length ; see methods ) were successful ( table 1 ) .
a  pr  measure ( probability of correct minus probability of incorrect  old 
decisions to studied items ) showed that overall recognition memory was significantly above chance ( 0 ) , ( fmri : pr = 70% ( + / 4 ) , t19 = 16.18 , p < .001 ; ieeg : pr = 62% ( + / 9 ) , t4 = 6.56 , p = .003 ) . pr for source recognition ( probability of correct minus incorrect source decisions to studied items excluding  do nt know  responses ) was also significantly above chance ( fmri : pr = 74% ( + / 6 ) , t19 = 13.46 , p < .001 ; ieeg : pr = 52% ( + / 8) , t4 = 6.15 , p = .004 ) .
no significant differences were observed in item- or source pr measures across fmri vs. ieeg groups ( both t23 < 1.63 , p > .11 ) . for further analyses , trials in which an item was recognized (  hit  ) , but either a  do nt know  response or an incorrect source response was given , were collapsed , and are referred to as  item recognition  ( ir ) .
mean reaction times ( rts ) for correct rejection ( cr ) , item recognition ( ir ) and source recognition ( sr ) are shown in table 1 .
all pairwise comparisons were significant ( fmri : all t19 > 3.47 , p < .01 ; ieeg : all t4 > 3.93 , p < .05 ) .
for all imaging analyses , we defined two memory effects of interest : ( i ) an  item effect  , i.e. , the difference between cr and ir , which emphasizes processes related to simple item recognition or novelty detection , while reducing the impact of target source retrieval ; ( ii ) a  source effect  , i.e. , the difference between sr and ir , which emphasizes processes related to retrieval of target source details , while reducing the impact of item recognition / novelty . for our fmri data , we first queried item- and source memory effects via a conventional analysis of the blood - oxygenation - level - dependent ( bold ) response based on an assumed haemodynamic response function ( hrf ) .
we extracted the mean parameter estimates across voxels within each region of interest ( roi ) , where rois were defined anatomically and separately for each participant , based on their structural mri ( fig .
no hemispheric differences were seen in this or any subsequent analysis ( see supplementary material ) , so the data reported here are averaged across left and right rois .
we found that both hippocampus and perirhinal cortex exhibited a significant item effect ( both t19 > 2.41 , p < .05 ) as well as a significant source effect ( both t19 > 2.18 , p < .05 ) , resulting in a 
as would be expected based on the above results , the integrated bold signal ( averaged from 3 - 9 sec post stimulus onset ) in both hippocampus and perirhinal cortex revealed a significant item effect ( both t19 > 2.91 , p < .01 ) as well as a significant source effect ( both t19 > 3.27 , p < .005 ) .
more critically , however , our data showed that these effects have different temporal characteristics within and across regions ( fig .
the item effect was delayed relative to the source effect , whereas in the perirhinal cortex , there was an early and transient item effect , together with a more sustained source effect .
these temporal dissociations within regions were confirmed by a repeated - measures anova with the factors effect ( item , source ) and time ( tr1 - 4 ) , which revealed significant effect x time interactions in both regions ( both f3,57 > 4.61 , p < .01 ) .
moreover , the bold data suggested that the sequence of item- and source effects differs across the two regions , as evidenced by a significant region x effect x time interaction ( f3,57 = 3.83 , p = .01 ) . comparing the latencies of each participant s effect peak ( using a non - parametric wilcoxon test )
, we observed that the perirhinal cortex item effect peaked significantly earlier than the hippocampal source effect ( p = .02 ) , whereas the perirhinal cortex source effect peaked significantly earlier than the hippocampal item effect ( p < .005 ) .
nonetheless , inferring the latency of neural activity from the temporal characteristics of the bold response is difficult ( given potential nonlinear neural - vascular mappings ) .
thus , to better explore the temporal profiles of memory signals in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex , we capitalized on the real - time resolution of the ieeg data . in a first step , we defined two time windows of interest : an early window ranging from 250 - 750ms post stimulus onset that encompassed the initial peak responses in both hippocampus and perirhinal cortex when collapsing across conditions ( fig .
s1a ) , and a late window from 800 - 2000ms post stimulus onset that captured a sustained , second component in both regions ( fig .
( as in the fmri data , no hemispheric differences were seen ; supplementary material . ) in the hippocampus ( fig .
3a ) , the early analysis window ( 250 - 750ms ) showed a significant source effect ( t4 = 4.88 , p = .008 ) , but no evidence of an item effect ( t4 = 0.05 , p = .960 ) . in the late analysis window ( 800 - 2000ms ) , the item effect was now significant ( t4 = 3.17 , p = .034 ) , whereas the source effect no longer reached significance ( t4 = 1.82 , p = .142 ) .
the late onset of the item effect suggests that this hippocampal response might reflect post - retrieval processes for new items , rather than the fast identification of old items that is expected by the behavioral evidence for rapid familiarity - based recognition . to assess more directly whether the hippocampal item effect reflects post - retrieval processes , we compared item- and source effects in response - locked ( instead of stimulus - locked ) erps .
more specifically , we compared a 500ms time window from 750ms to 250ms with that from + 250ms to + 750ms , defined relative to the participants key - press on each trial .
results revealed an interaction between time window ( pre , post ) and effect ( item , source ) ( f1,4 = 11.07 , p = .029 ) , due to the pre - response window showing a source effect ( t4 = 3.49 , p = .025 ) , but no item effect ( t4 = 1.09 , p = .339 ) , and the post - response window showing an item effect ( t4 = 3.33 , p = .029 ) , but no source effect ( t4 = 0.95 , p = .398 ) .
this result suggests that the hippocampal source effect precedes the memory judgment , whereas the item effect only occurs after the memory judgment , and thus likely reflects processes such as incidental encoding of experimentally novel information ( see discussion ) . in the perirhinal cortex ( fig .
3b ) , the early time window ( 250 - 750ms ) showed both an item effect ( t4 = 5.82 , p = .004 ) and a source effect ( t4 = 3.20 , p = .033 ) . in the late time window
( 800 - 2000ms ) , the source effect was still significant ( t4 = 5.30 , p = .006 ) , whereas the item effect was not ( t4 = 0.34 , p = .752 ) .
for the response - locked analysis , there was - unlike in the hippocampus - no differential size of source- vs. item effects with respect to pre- vs. post - response time windows ( f1,4 = 0.12 , p = .743 ) ; only a main effect of time window ( f1,4 = 12.12 , p = .025 ) , reflecting the fact that the combined item- and source effects were stronger in the pre- than in the post - response time window .
however , only the source effect reached significance in the pre - response time window ( t4 = 7.46 , p = .002 ) , whereas the item effect did not ( t4 = 2.24 , p = .088 ) , suggesting that the source effect was sustained and terminated with the memory response compared to a rapid and transient item effect . to further investigate the latency of these effects , we calculated the earliest timepoint to show a reliable item and source effect within each region .
the first effect was an item effect in perirhinal cortex at 200ms post - stimulus onset .
next , we observed a source effect in the hippocampus at 250ms , followed by a source effect in perirhinal cortex at 400ms . a hippocampal item effect was first observed at 1050ms ( fig .
4 ) . in summary , although item- and source effects were indistinguishable within and across regions via conventional fmri analysis , time - resolved bold data showed that these effects can be temporally dissociated .
this dissociation was confirmed by the ieeg data : in the hippocampus , we observed an early source effect that terminated with the participants memory response , and an item effect that onset much later in the trial , after the memory decision had been made . in perirhinal
cortex , our data suggest that there might be two independent processes : a fast and transient item effect and a later - onsetting source effect that is sustained throughout the retrieval period and terminates with participants memory decision .
thus , while both regions seem to conjointly support source retrieval ( see below ) , the item effect appears to reflect different processes in each case : a fast novelty signal in perirhinal cortex and a late , post - retrieval encoding process in the hippocampus . to test the notion that successful source retrieval is accompanied by
increased functional coupling across hippocampus and perirhinal cortex , we conducted connectivity analyses in both fmri and ieeg data . for the fmri data , we used a psychophysiological interaction ( ppi ) analysis ( see methods ) .
using the individually- and anatomically - defined hippocampi as seed regions , a set of bilateral perirhinal cortex clusters emerged showing greater functional coupling with the hippocampus during sr vs. ir ( pcorrected = .042 ; fig .
no differences in hippocampal - perirhinal coupling were observed for the item effect ( cr vs. ir ) at p < .001 , uncorrected . for the ieeg data
, we conducted spectral coherence analysis ( see methods for details ) . for the comparison of sr vs. ir
, this analysis revealed two clusters ( p < .05 , corrected via a cluster - based statistic across time and frequencies ; see methods ) in which coherence differed significantly across conditions ( fig .
first , sr showed significantly greater coherence between hippocampus and perirhinal cortex in the low gamma band ( 30 - 35 hz ) from ~700 to 800 ms .
second , we observed increased coherence for ir  or , conversely , increased decoupling for sr - between hippocampus and perirhinal cortex in the alpha band ( 8 - 12 hz ) from ~500 to 900 ms . because the temporal resolution of spectral analysis is inferior to that of erps we refrain from making strong conclusions about the timing of these gamma- and alpha - coupling effects , but it is worth noting that both effects overlap in time and coincide with the period in which both regions show differential erps for sr vs. ir . the increase in low gamma coupling for successful source recognition is consistent with previous findings during successful relative to unsuccessful memory encoding , and the inverse alpha coupling effect ( greater for unsuccessful source recognition ) is interesting in light of the emerging role of alpha oscillations in functional inhibition of brain regions .
again , no changes in coherence were observed for cr vs. ir ( using the same statistical threshold as for sr vs. ir ) .
together , the fmri and ieeg connectivity results provide strong support for the notion that successful source retrieval is accompanied by an increase in functional coupling between hippocampus and perirhinal cortex .
using the same memory paradigm during fmri recordings in healthy participants and ieeg in patients ( fig .
1 ) , our study was designed to elucidate the functional contributions of the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex to recognition memory .
consistent with previous fmri studies , item- and source memory signals were indistinguishable within and across regions when applying a conventional fmri analysis ( fig .
2 ) . importantly , however , a more fine - grained latency analysis revealed a temporal dissociation of item- and source memory effects within and across hippocampus and perirhinal cortex , both in bold time course data ( fig .
2 ) and , with much superior temporal resolution , in ieeg recordings ( fig .
the latency of the perirhinal item / novelty effect was short enough to provide , consistent with behavioral   and neural   evidence , a rapid familiarity / novelty signal .
the hippocampal item / novelty effect , on the other hand , emerged too late to be likely to contribute to the recognition decision  indeed , was only reliable after rather than before that decision  and thus more likely reflects post - retrieval encoding of new items .
we operationalized the  item effect  as the difference between correct rejection of experimentally novel items ( cr ) and item recognition without remembering the associated source ( ir ) . nonetheless , it is conceivable that ir trials were also accompanied by retrieval of non - target source details or by increased source retrieval effort .
similarly , though our  source effect  was operationalized as the difference between item recognition and item recognition along with successful source memory ( sr ) , it is conceivable that sr trials also exceeded ir in terms of overall memory strength . while we did not obtain continuous measures of source memory or memory strength , and so
can not rule out the contribution of either to our results , we note that neither is sufficient as the sole explanation of the complete pattern of condition effects across perirhinal and hippocampal regions . in other words , although any contrast of experimental conditions is unlikely to be process - pure , our pattern of data is inconsistent with a single , common factor ( such as memory strength ) driving activity in both hippocampus and perirhinal cortex .
we discuss the data for each region in more detail below , focusing on the temporal characteristics revealed via the ieeg recordings .
the hippocampus showed an early ( onset at 250ms ) source effect ( increase for sr relative to ir ) , which is in agreement with this region s established role in associative / contextual / recollection - based memory .
interestingly , the hippocampus also showed a strong response to novel items ( cr vs. ir ) , but critically this effect did not emerge until 1050ms post - stimulus onset .
( lnc ) for new items relative to old items has been observed in ieeg recordings before , but has never been related to item- vs. source memory .
given the inverted polarity of the ieeg item effect relative to the earlier source effect , one possibility is that the lnc might be mediated by a different cell population in the hippocampus .
indeed , single unit recordings from human hippocampus during recognition memory paradigms have identified two cell types - one type producing greater firing rates for old items (  old - selective  ) , and the other type producing greater firing rates for new items (  new - selective  ) .
importantly , our current findings extend these single - unit data in two ways : first , regarding the  new - selective 
response , this signal seems unlikely to support novelty detection per se , considering the latency of the lnc ( ~800ms after the source effect ) .
rather , the hippocampal response to ( correctly rejected ) unstudied items seems likely to support incidental , episodic encoding processes ( that occur even during a recognition memory test ) , which is corroborated by our finding that this item effect / novelty response unfolds after the memory decision has been made ( fig
note that while these results argue against a role of the hippocampus in rapid , familiarity - based item recognition , they are not incompatible with the established role of the hippocampus in detection of other types of ( contextual ) novelty , such as context deviancy , configural novelty   or prediction error .
response , our data suggest that this response may largely reflect associative / source retrieval rather than simple item recognition .
that is , although the hippocampal peak response would resemble a basic item - recognition response when collapsing ir and sr into a single  old  bin ( as in previous ieeg studies ) , separation of ir and sr suggests that this response is in fact driven by events in which successful associative / source retrieval occurs .
prevalent models of the perirhinal cortex postulate a role of this region in familiarity - based recognition   or in coding for weak rather than for strong memories .
to the extent that both familiarity and memory strength increase from correct rejection of an unstudied item ( cr ) to ir , and further from ir to sr , the early effect pattern we observed in our ieeg data ( ir < sr <
an alternative scenario , however , is that perirhinal cortex independently supports both ( i ) item recognition via decreased neural activity for studied ( experimentally - familiar ) relative to unstudied ( experimentally - novel ) stimuli ( ir < cr ) , and ( ii ) source memory via enhanced activity for successful relative to unsuccessful retrieval of associated event details ( sr > ir ) .
the first role ( item recognition through decreased activity , or conversely , increased activity for experimentally - novel stimuli ) has received considerable support from a variety of methods .
for instance , neurons in the primate perirhinal cortex have been shown to decrease their firing rates as a function of stimulus repetition , and lesions to the primate perirhinal cortex result in marked object recognition deficits . moreover
, human fmri studies have reported reduced bold signals for old relative to new items , while previous ieeg studies in human epilepsy patients have reported reduced n400 components for old relative to new items .
thus , our finding of a reduced perirhinal response for ir relative to cr is compatible with this region s established role in ( familiarity - based ) item recognition .
importantly , however , a more recent series of findings also suggest a role of perirhinal cortex in memory processes beyond simple item recognition .
for example , single neurons in primate perirhinal cortex have been shown to code for object - object associations ( pair - coding neurons ) .
also , recent fmri studies in humans have shown that perirhinal cortex can support , in conjunction with the hippocampus , successful associative encoding   as well as associative retrieval . thus , converging evidence suggests that the role of perirhinal cortex in episodic memory may encompass both item- and source memory .
however , if item- and source memory are indeed separate functions of perirhinal cortex , one might expect these functions to be mediated by separate cell populations and/or to show different temporal / dynamic profiles . indeed , we found that the item recognition effect ( ir vs. cr ) lasted from 200ms until ~800ms post - stimulus onset , whereas the associative recognition effect ( sr vs. ir ) started at 400ms ( figs .
3b and 4 ) and was sustained throughout the remainder of the trial period , terminating with the memory response .
thus , not only do the current data show both item- and source effects in perirhinal cortex , but they suggest that item recognition and source retrieval may be partially - separable processes supported by this region ( possibly in conjunction with the hippocampus ; see below ) .
our data reveal that the item effect in perirhinal cortex precedes the onset of the source effect in the hippocampus , which in turn precedes the onset of the source effect in perirhinal cortex ( fig .
this temporal pattern is suggestive of a signaling loop between perirhinal cortex and hippocampus , in which a rapid item recognition signal in perirhinal cortex triggers source retrieval processes in the hippocampus , which in turn entrain the perirhinal cortex in the service of retrieving and/or maintaining an associated source detail .
a recent study obtaining intralaminar recordings from primate perirhinal cortex during a paired associate task showed a reversal of the signal flow from ( i ) a forward signal during the cue period ( item processing ) to ( ii ) a backward signal during the delay period ( when retrieving the paired associate ) .
although that study did not record from the hippocampus , our current data suggest that this reversal might be triggered by the hippocampus . indeed
, a critical role of the hippocampus in initiating source retrieval is consistent with single unit data showing that successful free recall is preceded by a gradual increase of hippocampal firing rates .
this idea that hippocampus and perirhinal cortex need to interact during successful source retrieval is further substantiated by our finding of enhanced functional coupling among these regions during sr relative to ir ( fig .
, the temporal sequence of an early perirhinal item effect / familiarity signal followed by a hippocampal source effect / recollection signal lends strong support to current models that emphasize a functional separation between hippocampus and perirhinal cortex during episodic memory processes .
importantly , however , the subsequent source effect in perirhinal cortex , along with increases in functional coupling between hippocampus and perirhinal cortex , also highlight the intricate interaction of these regions that underlies the retrieval of episodically rich memory traces .
 in the endeavor to understand how our brains enable our multifaceted memories , much controversy surrounds the contributions of the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex ( prc ) . 
 here we recorded functional magnetic resonance imaging ( fmri ) in healthy controls and intracranial electroencephalography ( eeg ) in patients during the same recognition memory paradigm . 
 although conventional fmri analysis showed indistinguishable roles of the hippocampus and prc in familiarity - based item recognition and recollection - based source retrieval , event - related fmri and eeg time - courses revealed a clear temporal dissociation of memory signals within and across these regions . 
 whereas an early source retrieval effect was followed by a late , post - decision item novelty effect in hippocampus , an early item novelty effect was followed by a sustained source retrieval effect in prc . 
 although factors like memory strength were not experimentally controlled , the temporal pattern across regions suggests that a rapid item recognition signal in prc triggers a source retrieval process in the hippocampus , which in turn recruits prc representations / mechanisms  evidenced here by increased hippocampal - prc coupling during source recognition . 
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