Can anyone elaborate upon the left prefrontal cortex retrieving simple information encoded whereas the right pre frontal lobe is able to retrieve difficult encodings. suggesting that the left side of the brain is suited to recollecting memories whereas the right side of the brain is more specialised in the area for familiarity-based traces that contain less detailed information.
basic ref. :
Craik, F. I., Govoni, R., Naveh-Benjamin, M., & Anderson, N. D. (1996). The effects of divided attention on encoding and retrieval processes in human memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125(2), 159.
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Iidaka, T., Anderson, N. D., Kapur, S., Cabez, R., & Craik, F. I. (2000). The effect of divided attention on encoding and retrieval in episodic memory revealed by positron emission tomography. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(2), 267-280.
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Naveh-Benjamin, M., Craik, F. I., Guez, J., & Dori, H. (1998). Effects of divided attention on encoding and retrieval processes in human memory: further support for an asymmetry. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24(5), 1091.
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Naveh-Benjamin, M., & Guez, J. (2000). Effects of divided attention on encoding and retrieval processes: Assessment of attentional costs and a componential analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26(6), 1461.
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Guez, J., & Naveh-Benjamin, M. (2006). Divided attention at encoding and retrieval for once-and thrice-presented items: A micro-level analysis of attentional costs. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18(6), 874-898.
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Hemispheric dissociation in mnemonic processes is suggested by the Hemispheric Encoding\Retrieval Asymmetry (HERA) model (e.g., Nyberg, Cabeza, & Tulving, 1996):
http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03212412
I'm not sure how popular these claims are nowadays...
Here is a potentially useful recent work:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25882039
You may want to look up the references listed in the paper too.
HERA was first proposed by Tulving et al. in PNAS 1994:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC43300/
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