Chapter Outline

AN OVERVIEW OF NORMAL MEMORY

Categorizing Memory in Terms of What Is Remembered

Categorizing Memory in Terms of Capacityand Duration

Component Processes of Memory

The Relationship Between Memory and Other Domains of Cognition

MEDIAL TEMPORAL-LOBE AMNESIA ANDTHE CONSOLIDATION HYPOTHESIS

Patient H. M.

Some Implications of H. M.'s Memory Impairment

MEMORY IMPAIRMENT AFTER UNILATERAL TEMPORAL-LOBE LESIONS

Complementary Specialization of Memory Function for the Left and Right Temporal Lobes

The Roles of Medial Temporal-Lobe Structuresand Lateral Temporal Cortex in Memory

THE CRITICAL STRUCTURES INVOLVED IN MEMORY LOSS AFTER TEMPORAL-LOBE LESIONS

H. M.'s Lesions

Discrepancy Between Findings in Animals and Humans

Apparent Resolution of the Discrepancy

Search for the Critical Structures Involved in Recognition Memory

Some Conflicting Findings

The Importance of Medial-Temporal Cortex

DIENCEPHALIC AMNESIA

Korsakoff's Disease

Other Causes of Diencephalic Amnesia

The Relationship Between Medial-Temporal and Diencephalic Amnesia

WHERE IN THE MEMORY PROCESS IS THE IMPAIRMENT?

Registration/Encoding

Consolidation/Storage/Maintenance

Retrieval

PRESERVED ASPECTS OF MEMORY IN AMNESIA

Motor Learning

Perceptual Learning

Classical Conditioning

Cognitive Skill Learning

Priming

EPISODIC MEMORY AND SEMANTIC MEMORY

Global Amnesia

Selective Impairment of Episodic Memory

Selective Impairment of Semantic Memory

SHORT-TERM/WORKING MEMORY IMPAIRMENT

Short-Term Memory

Working Memory

The Frontal Lobes and Working Memory

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF MULTIPLEMEMORY SYSTEMS

THE NEURAL SUBSTRATE OF LONG-TERM MEMORY

Lashley's Search for the Engram

Evidence That Long-Term Memory Is Stored in the Cortex

Hippocampal Binding of Different Memory Elements as an Integral Componentin Explicit Memory

Storage of Implicit Memory

Protein Synthesis and the Structural Plasticity Underlying Long-Term Memory

So Where Is Memory Stored?

FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THE ROLE OF THE FRONTAL LOBES IN MEMORY

The Frontal Lobes and Organization

Impairment in Metamemory

SUMMARY