Conscious awareness, memory and the hippocampus.
Declarative memory, the conscious recollection of past experiences, is known to involve the hippocampus. Now a study of amnesic patients shows that hippocampus-dependent learning can occur in the absence of conscious awareness.
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D000647:Amnesia / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*