Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 210-217Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.03.005
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- Medical Research Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs
- NIMH [24600, 082892]
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Neuroimaging and lesion studies have seemed to converge on the idea that the hippocampus selectively supports recollection. However, these studies usually involve a comparison between strong recollection-based memories and weak familiarity-based memories. Studies that avoid confounding memory strength with recollection and familiarity almost always find that the hippocampus supports both recollection and familiarity. We argue that the functional organization of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) is unlikely to be illuminated by the psychological distinction between recollection and familiarity and will be better informed by findings from neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. These findings indicate that the different structures of the MTL process different attributes of experience. By representing the widest array of attributes, the hippocampus supports recollection-based and familiarity-based memory of multiattribute stimuli.
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