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Brief Communication

Nature Neuroscience 12, 253–255 (1 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/nn.2263

The precision of remote context memories does not require the hippocampus

Szu-Han Wang , C|[aacute]|tia M Teixeira , Anne L Wheeler & Paul W Frankland

Although the clarity of many memories fades with time, some memories may maintain their original precision. Here we used a context discrimination procedure to evaluate whether the hippocampus is important in maintaining precision as memories mature.