title: Conscious awareness, memory and the hippocampus.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Eichenbaum
mesh_terms: 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*