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- Title
The Hippocampus As a "Stupid," Domain-Specific Module: Implications for Theories of Recent and Remote Memory, and of Imagination.
- Authors
Moscovitch, Morris
- Abstract
The hippocampus and surrounding regions of the medial temporal lobe play a central role in all neuropsychological theories of memory. It is still a matter of debate, however, how best to characterise the functions of these regions, the hippocampus in particular. In this article, I examine the proposal that the hippocampus is a "stupid" module whose specific domain is consciously apprehended information. A number of interesting consequences for the organisation of memory and the brain follow from this proposal and the assumptions it entails. These, in turn, have important implications for neuropsychological theories of recent and remote episodic, semantic, and spatial memory and for the functions that episodic memory may serve in perception, comprehension, planning, imagination, and problem solving. I consider these implications by selectively reviewing the literature and primarily drawing on research my collaborators and I have conducted.
- Subjects
HIPPOCAMPUS (Brain); BRAIN; CENTRAL nervous system; DECISION making; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale, 2008, Vol 62, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
1196-1961
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1037/1196-1961.62.1.62