Recognition Memory for Single Items and for Associations Is Similarly Impaired following Damage to the Hippocampal Region & L E a R N I N G M E M O R Y
Recognition Memory for Single Items and for Associations Is Similarly Impaired following Damage to the Hippocampal Region & L E a R N I N G M E M O R Y
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C. Stark;P. Bayley;L. Squire
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The formation of new associations between items is critical for establishing episodic memories. It has been suggested that the hippocampus is essential for creating such associations but is not involved, or is much less involved, in memory for single items. In Experiment 1, we tested controls and amnesic patients with bilateral lesions thought to be limited primarily to the hippocampal region in both single-item and associative recognition memory tasks. In the single-item task, a conventional recognition memory task was administered in which participants studied either houses or faces and were tested for their ability to recognize the individual items. In the associative task, participants studied paired pictures of houses and faces with instructions that encouraged associating the two stimuli, and were tested for their ability to recognize the specific pairings that were presented at study. Like the controls, the amnesic patients performed more poorly on the associative task. Relative to the controls, the amnesic patients were impaired to a similar extent on the single-item and associative tasks. In Experiment 2, the performance of the amnesic patients was improved by increasing the number of presentations of the study lists (eight presentations instead of one). On both the single-item and associative tests, the performance of the amnesic patients after eight presentations was now identical to the performance of the controls who had been given only one presentation of the study list. Thus, the associative condition was not disproportionally difficult for the amnesic patients. These results are consistent with the idea that the hippocampus is similarly involved in single-item and associative memory. Declarative memory (memory for facts and events) relies upon structures in the medial temporal lobes, including the hippocampal region (the hippocampus proper, the dentate gyrus, the subiculum) and the adjacent structures that lie along the parahippocampal gyrus (the entorhinal, perirhi-nal, and parahippocampal cortices). Currently, the precise contribution that these structures make to declarative memory is not well understood. There have been several efforts to distinguish the role of the hippocampal region from the role of the adjacent structures. Many of these share a common thread, proposing that the hippocampus is particularly involved in declarative memory tasks that require the formation and use of associations between the separate components of presented material (e. In strong versions of this view, the hippocampus is proposed to be essential for overtly associative tasks such as recall or paired-associate learning, and it also supports the recollective …