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How do memory modules differentially contribute to familiarity and recollection?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2020

Olya Hakobyan  and
Sen Cheng Open the ORCID record for Sen Cheng [Opens in a new window]
Olya Hakobyan
Affiliation:
Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801Bochum, Germany. olya.hakobyan@rub.desen.cheng@rub.dewww.rub.de/cns
Sen Cheng
Affiliation:
Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801Bochum, Germany. olya.hakobyan@rub.desen.cheng@rub.dewww.rub.de/cns
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Abstract

We fully support dissociating the subjective experience from the memory contents in recognition memory, as Bastin et al. posit in the target article. However, having two generic memory modules with qualitatively different functions is not mandatory and is in fact inconsistent with experimental evidence. We propose that quantitative differences in the properties of the memory modules can account for the apparent dissociation of recollection and familiarity along anatomical lines.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e288
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