CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

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Introduction

In this paper we are going to analyze a contextual analysis of the article Memory deficits for implicit contextual information in amnesic subjects with hippocampal damage.

Contextual analysis

The hippocampus and adjacent medial temporal lobe (entorhinal, perirhinal and parahippocampal cortex) are critical for encoding and retrieving information1. In humans, the integrity of these medial temporal lobe structures (termed the hippocampal system) enables conscious recollection or recognition of facts and events, known as explicit or declarative memory. Thus, damage to the medial temporal lobe system produces striking explicit-memory impairments, as in the well-known amnesic patient, HM5. Such explicit-memory deficits ...