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The Human Hippocampus and Spatial and Episodic Memory
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Finding one's way around an environment and remembering the events that occur within it are crucial cognitive abilities that have been linked to the hippocampus and medial temporal lobes. Our review of neuropsychological, behavioral, and neuroimaging studies of human hippocampal involvement in spatial memory concentrates on three important concepts in this field: spatial frameworks, dimensionality, and orientation and self-motion. We also compare variation in hippocampal structure and function across and within species. We discuss how its spatial role relates to its accepted role in episodic memory. Five related studies use virtual reality to examine these two types of memory in ecologically valid situations. While processing of spatial scenes involves the parahippocampus, the right hippocampus appears particularly involved in memory for locations within an environment, with the left hippocampus more involved in context-dependent episodic or autobiographical memory.
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“Intriguingly, similar brain networks to the classic episodic memory network (also replicated in this study with the RM > RO contrast) has also been activated in a variety of other circumstances including navigation (Burgess et al., 2002; Hartley et al., 2003; Spiers and Maguire, 2006), spatial tasks (Maguire et al., 2003; Kumaran and Maguire, 2005), episodic future thinking (Atance and O'Neill, 2”
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“The tolerance to partial losses of spatial information has been proposed to be a key characteristic of the mammalian hippocampus-dependent map-like spatial memory”
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“The hippocampus of tetrapods seems to be essential in tasks requiring the formation of a memory of the spatial relationships of multiple elements and cues of the environment and those demanding the flexible expression of previously acquired spatial knowledge [72,73,75,76].”
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“In mammals, allocentric navigation is thought to involve the operation of an extended cortico-hippocampal network that conveys highly processed visual and multisensory information to the hippocampal circuits for further processing and transformation into “world-centered” relational spatial representations [74,76,79,188,189,190,191,192].”
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“The part of the human brain responsible for this task is also one of the most primitive parts of the brain (Burgess 2002).”
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“Based on studies of patients with injury to the medial temporal lobe, it is well-accepted that the hippocampus is crucial to the establishment of episodic memory (Burgess et al., 2002; Eichenbaum, 2013; Squire and Zola-Morgan, 1991; Tulving and Markowitsch, 1998).”
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“Prior neuropsychological research has consistently indicated the dominance of the right hemisphere in processing spatial information (Spiers et al. 2001; Burgess et al. 2001, 2002)”
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“The human hippocampus plays a vital role in the formation of declarative memories, most prominently of which, in the formation of episodic and spatiotemporal memories (Burgess et al., 2002).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Burgess, N., Maguire, E. A., & O'Keefe, J.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Burgess, Neil
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2002-08
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 625-641
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1970006557
- Cited by
- 2,401
- References
- 180
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- FWCI
- 3.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Neuron (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- hippocampus, spatial memory, episodic memory, spatial framework, dimensionality, orientation, self-motion, parahippocampal cortex, right hippocampus, left hippocampus, autobiographical memory, virtual reality, medial temporal lobe
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Hippocampus, Humans, Functional Laterality, Memory, Memory Disorders, Motion Perception, Nerve Net, Orientation, Space Perception, User-Computer Interface, Maze Learning
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