Complementary memory systems: competition, cooperation and compensation.
Spatial navigation depends on dissociable memory systems that have distinct neural bases and employ different forms of representation. One system gradually acquires reliable sequences of responses to given situations (e.g. repeatedly following a fixed route), and depends on the striatum. The other develops flexible representations permitting novel responses (e.g. finding new shortcuts), and depends on the hippocampus. Voermans and colleagues explore the interaction between these two systems using functional neuroimaging and behavioural measures in a clinical population.
Hartley
Tom
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Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK.
Burgess
Neil
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D000818:Animals; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D012919:Social Behavior