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The Evolution of Memory Systems
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Description| Publisher | Oxford University Press UK |
| Author(s) | Elizabeth Murray / Steven Wise / Kim Graham |
| Subtitle | Ancestors, Anatomy, and Adaptations |
| Published | 24th November 2016 |
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Ancestors, Anatomy, and Adaptations
Clinical observations and animal experiments have shaped our prevailing view of human memory. This doctrine holds that the medial temporal lobe subserves one memory system for explicit or declarative memories, while the basal ganglia subserves a separate memory system for implicit or procedural memories, including habits. Cortical areas outside the medial temporal lobe are said to function in perception, motor control, attention, or other aspects of executivefunction, but not in memory. The Evolution of Memory Systems advances dramatically different ideas on all counts. It proposes that several memory systems arose during evolution and
that they did so for the same general reason: to transcend problems and exploit opportunities encountered by specific ancestors at particular times and places in the distant past.
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