BIO SCI 38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Retrograde Amnesia, Temporal Lobe, Memory Consolidation

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The role of hippocampus in systems memory consolidation. Two types of processes are thought to contribute to the. Re-examination of the role of the hippocampus in systems consolidation of declarative consolidation of long-term stability of memories. memories. To do this requires intentional retrieval and explicit recollection. However, the content of semantic memory is said to be context free not tied to the place where it was acquired. Re-examination of the role of the hippocampus in systems consolidation of declarative memories. Panel a is consistent with the retrieval of semantic (or semanticlike) knowledge from patients and animals with damage to the hippocampus and mtl. Panel b is consistent with recent analyses of retrieval of true episodic memory from from patients and animals with damage to the hippocampus and mtl. The episodic and semantic components of declarative memory require distinct. Our current view of the function of the hippocampus in declarative memory function: