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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 41-44Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.01222
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memory; retrograde amnesia; consolidation; retrieval deficits
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Recently, the field of animal memory research has seen a resurgence of interest in the mechanisms underlying retrograde amnesia (RA) and in the use of RA as a technique for studying memory processes. A recent report from a major neuroscience lab, which demonstrated RA for an old reactivated memory, revitalized the debate regarding the widely accepted memory-consolidation theory of RA. Here, we discuss a number of the characteristics of RA and consider the findings that led to the development of the memory-consolidated hypothesis, as well as those suggesting an alternative retrieval-deficient explanation.
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