Human memory: novelty, association and the brain.
The hippocampus has been clearly implicated in memory, but its precise role is unclear. Recent imaging studies suggest that the hippocampus is particularly concerned with the detection of novelty, as opposed to the prefrontal cortex, which seems more concerned with encoding associations.
Parkin
A J
AJ
Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.
D001931:Brain Mapping; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods