Meanings
adjectivepostretrieval (not comparable)
- not comparableAfter retrieval.
Thus, ventral mPFC may mediate postretrieval processing of recollected information rather than preretrieval processes relating to retrieval attempts (Rugg and Wilding 2000).
2014 April 3, Zara M. Bergström et al., “Reflections of Oneself: Neurocognitive Evidence for Dissociable Forms of Self-Referential Recollection”, in Cerebral Cortex (New York, NY), volume 25, →DOI
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