Thanks for the memories: Extending the hippocampal-diencephalic mnemonic system

Author(s): Brown, M. W.

Journal/Book: Behav Brain Sci. 1999; 22: 40 West 20Th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA. Cambridge Univ Press. 471-489.

Abstract: The goal of our target article was to review a number of emerging facts about the effects of limbic damage on memory in humans and animals, and about divisions within recognition memory in humans. We then argued that this information can be synthesized to produce a new view of the substrates of episodic memory. The key pathway in this system is from the hippocampus to the anterior thalamic nuclei. There seems to be a general agreement that the importance of this pathway has previously been underestimated and that it warrants further study. At the same time, a number of key questions remain. These concern the relationship of this system to another temporal-lobe/diencephalic system that contributes to recognition, and the relationship of these systems to prefrontal cortex activity.

Note: Editorial Aggleton JP, Univ Cardiff, Sch Psychol, Cardiff CF1 3YG, S Glam, WALES

Keyword(s): RECOGNITION MEMORY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; MONKEYS; LESIONS; AMYGDALA; MODULATION; DISRUPT; AMNESIA

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