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MAXWELL B. MERKOWA,JOHN F. BURKEB, AND MICHAEL J. KAHANAC
HIPPOCAMPUS& RECOGNITIONMEMORY
PRESENTATION BY RAGHAV MATTAY
BASED ON RESEARCH BY
Hippocampus
the center of emotion as well as integral part ofmemory and spatial navigation
The Question?
Which of the two processes of recognition memory -recollection and familiarity - does the hippocampussupport?
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The Study
66 subjects
2 Tests:
participants shown a series ofwords, asked to recollect them
participants shown anotherseries of words (old & new),asked to decide whether or noteach word was one they wereshown before
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Less high frequency when the participants failed to recognizea word they had been shown before, or whenever they saw anew word - whether or not they correctly identified it as new
ResultsNoticeably higher frequencies of activity when participantscorrectly identified a word they had seen before
"Our findings reject thehypothesis that the hippocampusexclusively supports therecollection component ofrecognition memory and, instead,indicate that this structure isfunctionally relevant to bothprocesses thought to supportrecognition."
- Dr. Maxwell Merkow
Conclusion
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/301999.php
Sources
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/30/1513145112.abstract