Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1985
Publication Title
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
First Page
499
Last Page
500
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00001321
Abstract
Rawlins’s characterization of the hippocampus as a “high-capacity, immediate-term memory store” captures the essential idea in a number of previous models. For example, Gaffan (1974), Gray (1984), Hirsh (1980), Kesner (Bierley, Kesner & Novak 1983), Olton (Olton, Becker & Handelmann 1979), Solomon (1980), and Winocur (1980) all agree that hippocampal animals show memory deficits when required to identify, for whatever reason, one specific event out of a list of recent events. Although these authors disagree on a number of details, Rawlins has identified their models common ground, the core of each model. (It is only fair to note that Gaffan has considerably modified his ideas about the hippocampus; cf. Gaffan, Saunders, Gaffan, Harrison, Shields & Owen 1984.)
Rights
This is a postprint version of this article. It was originally published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Recommended Citation
Dale, R. H. I. (1985). The hippocampus as episodic encoder: Does it play tag? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8(3), 499-500. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X00001321. Available from: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/349