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Episodic memory in semantic dementia: Implications for the roles played by the perirhinal and hippocampal memory systems in new learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Kim S. Graham
Affiliation:
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, CB2 2EF, England{kim.graham; john.hodges}@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
John R. Hodges
Affiliation:
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, CB2 2EF, England{kim.graham; john.hodges}@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

Abstract

Aggleton & Brown (A&B) propose that the hippocampal-anterior thalamic and perirhinal-medial dorsal thalamic systems play independent roles in episodic memory, with the hippocampus supporting recollection-based memory and the perirhinal cortex, recognition memory. In this commentary we discuss whether there is experimental support for the A&B model from studies of long-term memory in semantic dementia.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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