Life: The Science of Biology
Life: The Science of Biology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781319010164
Author: David E. Sadava, David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 46.3, Problem 3R
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The mechanisms controlling the acquisition of declarative memories by brain, in case of H.M.

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H.M. refers to the famous case of a man named H.M., who had to get hippocampus on both sides of his brain removed in order to control severe epilepsy. Declarative memory or explicit memory refers to the facts, people, places, and events, which need to be recalled consciously.

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