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The Hippocampus in Memory

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The hippocampus is required to form new explicit memories and is not required to retain older ones.

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A patient with hippocampal damage recalls a childhood home and cannot recall this morning.

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The gradient tells us consolidation moves memories elsewhere over time. It does not tell us where.