Memory, Amnesia, and the Hippocampal System

by Neal J. Cohen, Howard Eichenbaum

A broad synthesis that brings together converging findings from neuropsychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science in a cognitive neuroscience theory of memory that accounts for the nature of memory impairment exhibited in human amnesia and animal models of amnesia, that specifies the functional role played by the hippocampal system in memory, and that provides further understanding of the componential structure of memory. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

344 pages, Hardcover

First published October 4, 1993