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Abstract

A general method for studying monkeys’ memories is to teach the animals memory-dependent performance rules: for example, to choose, out of two visual stimuli, the one that flashed last time the animal saw it. One may thus assess the animal’s memory for any arbitrarily chosen event such as flashing even if the event itself has no intrinsic importance for the animal. The method also allows assessment of an animal’s memory of the animal’s own previous behaviour. The use of these methods has revealed a simple generalization about the function of the hippocampus in memory: hippocampal lesions impair memory of the voluntary movement that a stimulus previously elicited, but leave intact memory for relations between environmental events other than voluntary movements. The impairment in memory for voluntary movements produces deficits in exploration and in habit formation.

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Hippocampus: memory, habit and voluntary movement. (1985). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, 308(1135), 87–99.

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Issued 40 years, 6 months ago (Feb. 13, 1985)
Published 40 years, 6 months ago (Feb. 13, 1985)
Published Online 28 years, 8 months ago (Jan. 1, 1997)
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@article{1985, habit and voluntary movement_1985, volume={308}, ISSN={2054-0280}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1985.0012}, DOI={10.1098/rstb.1985.0012}, number={1135}, journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences}, publisher={The Royal Society}, year={1985}, month=feb, pages={87–99} }