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Remembering the hippocampus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Stuart M. Zola  and
Larry R. Squire
Stuart M. Zola
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, CA 92161 {szola; lsquire}@ucsd.edu Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093 {szola; lsquire}@ucsd.edu
Larry R. Squire
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, CA 92161 {szola; lsquire}@ucsd.edu Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093 {szola; lsquire}@ucsd.edu Department of Psychology, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093 {szola; lsquire}@ucsd.edu
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Abstract

The proposal that the hippocampus is important for the encoding of episodic information, but not familiarity-based recognition, is incompatible with the available data. An alternative way to think about functional specialization within the medial temporal lobe memory system is suggested, based on neuroanatomy.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 469 - 471
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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