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Neuropsychology (3rd year course) - (Developmental Psychology in CCS) "The hippocampus is the site of memory". Critically discuss this statement. As Blakemore (1988) stated, "without memory, we would be servants of the moment, with nothing but our innate reflexes to help us deal with the world. There could be no language, no art, no science, no culture. Civilisation itself is the distillation of human memory" (p.277). This quotation rightly emphasises the importance of memory as a human faculty and highlights the importance attached to our understanding of this complex higher function. As pointed out by Mayes & Montaldi (1997), understanding of the human memory system has been revolutionised since the mid 70s by the emergence of brain imaging techniques. Furthermore, much of what is known today has come about from studies of memory failure, or more specifically the amnesic syndrome, which can occur as a function of brain damage, disease, or...

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