2000
DOI: 10.1038/79867
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Remote spatial memory in an amnesic person with extensive bilateral hippocampal lesions

Abstract: The hippocampus may have a time-limited role in memory, being needed only until information is permanently stored elsewhere, or this region may permanently represent long-term allocentric spatial information or cognitive maps in memory. To test these ideas, we investigated remote spatial memory in K.C., a patient with bilateral hippocampal lesions and amnesia for autobiographical events. In his spatial knowledge, general aspects were preserved, but details were lost, a pattern that resembled his memory loss in… Show more

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“…This argument, however, cannot fully account for the results of some human studies. As noted in the previous section, humans with MTL/HPC damage are able to recover old spatial memories, although many detailed aspects of those memories remain inaccessible [62]. We address the apparent anomaly between animal and human studies in our own research, which we report later in the paper.…”
Section: Spatial Memorymentioning
confidence: 82%
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“…This argument, however, cannot fully account for the results of some human studies. As noted in the previous section, humans with MTL/HPC damage are able to recover old spatial memories, although many detailed aspects of those memories remain inaccessible [62]. We address the apparent anomaly between animal and human studies in our own research, which we report later in the paper.…”
Section: Spatial Memorymentioning
confidence: 82%
“…Patients with bilateral MTL damage can retain schematic cognitive maps of old neighbourhoods that are adequate for navigation but which lack topographical details and local environmental features, such as the appearance and location of particular homes, that would allow the individual to retain detailed cognitive maps of their locale [62]. In this way, the pattern of preserved and impaired spatial memory is akin to that observed for episodic and semantic memories-the gist is retained but the details are lost.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 97%
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