Abstract

This chapter reviews evidence for the multiple parallel memory systems hypothesis: the idea that different kinds of information are processed and stored in anatomically distinct brain systems. The historical development of evidence that several different kinds of information are learned and are selectively affected by damage to different brain areas is reviewed. Current evidence is described for the existence of memory for three different kinds of information that are processed and stored in three different, independently functioning neural systems in rats and humans. Evidence for cooperation and competition among the systems for control of behavior suggests that they function independently and in parallel.

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