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>From: bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs)
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Subject: Re: Memory and store/retrieve.
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In-Reply-To: ucjtpsk@ucl.ac.uk's message of 4 Aug 92 10: 31:54 GMT

ucjtpsk@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Shiv Kaul) writes:

   >Can you (or anyone else) cite some references that outline this theory
   >of episodic memory consolidation?

You betcha.  

The idea was first proposed (as far as I know) in David Marr's paper
"Simple memory: a theory for archicortex", Phil Trans Roy Soc London
262:23-81 (1971).

The authoritative recent review is "Memory and the hippocampus: A
synthesis from findings with rats, monkeys, and humans", Larry R
Squire, *Psychological Review* 99:195-231 (1992).

Squire's Abstract: This article considers the role of the hippocampus
in memory function.  A central thesis is that work with rats, monkeys,
and humans -- which has sometimes seemed to preceed independently in 3
separate literatures -- is now largely in agreement about the function
of the hippocampus and related structures.  A biological perspective
is presented, which proposes multiple memory systems with different
functions, and distinct anatomical organizations.  The hippocampus
(together with anatomically related structures) is essential for a
specific kind of memory, here termed *declarative memory* (similar
terms include *explicit* and *relational*).  Declarative memory is
contrasted with a heterogeneous collection of nondeclarative
(implicit) memory abilities that do not require the hippocampus
(skills and habits, simple conditioning, and the phenomenon of
priming).  The hippocampus is needed temporarily to bind together
distributed sites in neocortex that together represent a whole memory.


