Hippocampal Dependent Memory
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Hippocampal Insulin Microinjection and In vivo Microdialysis During Spatial Memory Testing
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2013
Modulation of hippocampally-dependent spatial working memory by direct intrahippocampal microinjection, accompanied and followed by in vivo microdialysis for metabolites in conscious, behaving animals.
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Motor and Hippocampal Dependent Spatial Learning and Reference Memory Assessment in a Transgenic Rat Model of Alzheimer's Disease with Stroke
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2016
To investigate the co-morbid Alzheimer's disease (AD) and stroke condition in a novel model, three behavior tasks are described that assess both motor control and cognitive behaviors. These tasks include the beam-walk task, cylinder task and Morris water maze.
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Learning and Memory: The Remember-Know Task
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Jonas T. Kaplan and Sarah I. Gimbel—University of Southern California Our experience of memory is varied and complex. Sometimes we remember events in vivid detail, while other times we may only have a vague sense of familiarity. Memory researchers have made a distinction between memories that are recollected versus those that are familiar. A recollected item is one that is not only remembered, but carries with it details of the time at which it was learned or encoded.
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Olfactory Context Dependent Memory: Direct Presentation of Odorants
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2018
The use of an olfactometer for directly presenting odorants opens exciting opportunities for researchers of olfactory memory. The current paper discusses issues related to this methodology as related to a previously published experiment on olfactory context dependent memory.
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Memory Development: Demonstrating How Repeated Questioning Leads to False Memories
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville A person is defined as a unique individual based on the people and events they encounter in their lives. Thus, creating, storing, and recalling memories are essential elements of the human experience. However, memory, as adults experience it, takes time to develop. Although young children can learn facts and remember details of their lives from moment-to-moment and day-to-day, they do not create...
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Binding sensory, contextual, and temporal information allows separate details of an event to be represented as one coherent memory. Hippocampal circuits therefore do more than register isolated sensations: they organize what happened, where it occurred, and when it occurred. This integrated representation supports later recall of an event rather than retrieval of disconnected details.
Consolidation stabilizes newly formed memories after encoding through interactions between the hippocampus and distributed cortical networks. This process helps preserve information beyond the initial learning episode and supports later retrieval. Examining consolidation is important because memory performance reflects not only how information was initially organized, but also how successfully that representation becomes stabilized across brain systems.
Hippocampal-dependent memory supports recollection of events and spatial relationships, whereas skills and habits depend less on the hippocampus. This distinction separates remembering an episode or route from performing a learned action automatically. Clinically, comparing these abilities can help characterize whether a memory problem primarily affects event-based and spatial recall or reflects a different learning system.
Impairment can provide important evidence about how disease or injury affects event-based and spatial memory. In medicine, studying these deficits helps clarify amnesia and contributes to understanding Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, and stress-related cognitive impairment. The resulting memory profile can guide assessment by identifying difficulties in forming, stabilizing, or retrieving hippocampus-reliant information.
This memory system provides a useful framework for connecting specific cognitive difficulties with disorders that affect the brain. Research on it examines amnesia, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, and stress-related cognitive impairment, while also considering learning, navigation, and recall. These links help investigators describe disease-related memory changes and identify questions for targeted interventions.
Researchers can use knowledge of this system to focus assessment on memory abilities that depend on forming and retrieving event-based or spatial representations. Findings may help distinguish these difficulties from problems involving skills and habits. In turn, clearer characterization of the affected memory processes can support development of targeted interventions for neurological and stress-related cognitive conditions.