In humans, recollection and familiarity represent qualitatively distinct kinds of memory. A recent study in Nature applied methods commonly used in human research to rats and suggests that their recognition memory may consist of similarly distinct components.
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Morris, R., Rugg, M. Messing about in memory. Nat Neurosci 7, 1171–1173 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1104-1171
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