DECLARATIVE MEMORY

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Patient H.M.

Learn about the discovery of the role of the hippocampus.

Declarative memory is a conscious form of memory allowing you to remember, for example, what you did yesterday. We have known since the 1950s and Brenda Milner’s study of patient H.M. that the hippocampus is essential for declarative memory.

Lizenz

University of Basel