Conscious awareness, memory and the hippocampus

Authors
Eichenbaum, H
Citation
H. Eichenbaum, Conscious awareness, memory and the hippocampus, NAT NEUROSC, 2(9), 1999, pp. 775-776
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences & Behavoir
Journal title
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
ISSN journal
10976256 → ACNP
Volume
2
Issue
9
Year of publication
1999
Pages
775 - 776
Database
ISI
SICI code
1097-6256(199909)2:9<775:CAMATH>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Declarative memory, the conscious recollection of past experiences, is know n to involve the hippocampus. Now a study of amnesic patients shows that hi ppocampus-dependent learning can occur in the absence of conscious awarenes s.