Learning memory and the hippocampus
The hippocampus apparently plays an important role in human memory, since damage to either it or its main output pathway, the fornix, results in severe amnesia. Patients with such lesions perform poorly on formal tests of learning and memory, but show almost normal learning and retention in situatio...
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University of Birmingham
1978
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.457695 |