Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0670 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Hippocampus in Memory
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The idea
The hippocampus is required to form new explicit memories and is not required to retain older ones.
In practice
A patient with hippocampal damage recalls a childhood home and cannot recall this morning.
Where people slip
The gradient tells us consolidation moves memories elsewhere over time. It does not tell us where.
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