Nature Neuroscience
2, 775 - 776 (1999)
doi:10.1038/12137
Conscious awareness, memory and the hippocampusHoward Eichenbaum
Howard Eichenbaum is at the Laboratory of Cognitive
Neurobiology, Department of Psychology, Boston University,
64 Cummington Street, Boston, Massachusetts
02215, USA.
hbe@bu.edu
Declarative memory, the conscious recollection of past experiences, is
known to involve the hippocampus. Now a study of amnesic patients shows that
hippocampus-dependent learning can occur in the absence of conscious awareness.
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