Role of Hippocampus in Declarative Memory

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Psychology

 

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Jodi J

 

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March 10, 2015

 

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(1996) showed patients with non-mechanical damage to the hippocampus and medial temporal lobe in three case studies who suffered severe memory loss following physiological damage to these areas. Post mortem examination revealed that damage was only evident in the hippocampus. Results on the patients word recognition tasks were good, however they were greatly impaired on recall tasks, implying that the role of the hippocampus may lie here (recall)...
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Criticisms of this study are however that all three patients lived very unhealthy lifesyles with high co-morbidities (alcohol ? Kortakoffs?). Furthermore, damage to the hippocampus is far easier to detect than that of other areas due to it’s uniform structure. Therefore it cannot be assumed that damage was limited only to the hippocampus...
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