The Organization of Declarative and Nondeclarative Memory

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Veterans Administration Hosp, Dept of Psychiatry, San Diego, CA, US 9401 (from the chapter) it appears that amnesia has revealed a biological natural division in how the nervous system has organized its capacity for acquiring, storing, and retrieving information / one kind of memory, termed declarative or explicit memory, is dependent on the integrity of the hippocampus and related structures ...and affords the capacity for conscious recollection and recall / the other kind, termed nondeclarative or implicit memory, is not one thing but a heterogeneous collection of separate nonconscious learning abilities, which depend on any of several different brain systems /// (describes) the results of two recent studies / the first concerns the long- standing issue of how category-level knowledge and the ability to classify arise from specific experiences (in amnesic patients) / the second concerns an early attempt to study memory and priming (in normal Ss), using the technique of positron emission tomography-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------Enregistrement 279 de 544 - PsycLIT Chapters & Books 1/87-12/96