A Hippocampal Model of Recognition Memory

Abstract

A rich body of data exists showing that recollection of specific infor(cid:173) mation makes an important contribution to recognition memory, which is distinct from the contribution of familiarity, and is not adequately cap(cid:173) tured by existing unitary memory models. Furthennore, neuropsycholog(cid:173) ical evidence indicates that recollection is sub served by the hippocampus. We present a model, based largely on known features of hippocampal anatomy and physiology, that accounts for the following key character(cid:173) istics of recollection: 1) false recollection is rare (i.e., participants rarely claim to recollect having studied nonstudied items), and 2) increasing in(cid:173) terference leads to less recollection but apparently does not compromise the quality of recollection (i.e., the extent to which recollected infonna(cid:173) tion veridically reflects events that occurred at study).

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Text

O'Reilly et al. "A Hippocampal Model of Recognition Memory." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1997.

Markdown

[O'Reilly et al. "A Hippocampal Model of Recognition Memory." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1997.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1997/oreilly1997neurips-hippocampal/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{oreilly1997neurips-hippocampal,
  title     = {{A Hippocampal Model of Recognition Memory}},
  author    = {O'Reilly, Randall C. and Norman, Kenneth A. and McClelland, James L.},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {1997},
  pages     = {73-79},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1997/oreilly1997neurips-hippocampal/}
}