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HIPPOCAMPUS
Volume 30, Issue 8, Pages 842-850Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23162
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Lynn Nadel; memory; multiple trace theory; retrograde amnesia
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Multiple trace theory (Nadel & Moscovitch,Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 1997, 7, 217-227) has proven to be one of the most novel and influential recent memory theories, and played an essential role in shifting perspective on systems-level memory consolidation. Here, we briefly review its impact and testable predictions and focus our discussion primarily on nonhuman animal experiments. Perhaps, the most often supported claim is that episodic memory tasks should exhibit comparable severity of retrograde amnesia (RA) for recent and remote memories after extensive damage to the hippocampus (HPC). By contrast, there appears to be little or no experimental support for other core predictions, such as temporally limited RA after extensive HPC damage in semantic memory tasks, temporally limited RA for episodic memories after partial HPC damage, or the existence of storage of multiple HPC traces with repeated reactivations. Despite these shortcomings, it continues to be a highly cited HPC memory theory.
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