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The subjects\u2019 ability to form vivid visual mental imagery was indexed with the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ), which we used to compare the component scores of the 10 highest scoring VVIQ subjects to those of the 10 lowest scoring VVIQ subjects. The high VVIQ group possessed significantly larger component scores than the low VVIQ subjects, with the component referencing the trisynaptic pathway yielding significant differences between the high and low imagery groups. The second principal component indexed a previously unidentified hippocampal region, which referenced four neighboring subfields: the molecular layer, hippocampal tail, presubiculum, and subiculum. 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