Squire (2004)

Memory systems of the brain: A brief history and current perspective

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 82(3), 171-177

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Traces the history of the idea that memory comprises distinct systems, from nineteenth-century philosophical precursors through the mid-century experimental turn to the position, settled by about 1980, that a fundamental division separates memory available to conscious recollection from memory that is not. Describes the subsequent move beyond that dichotomy to a biologically grounded framework of multiple systems supported by the hippocampus and related structures, the amygdala, the neostriatum, and the cerebellum, and offers a current account of how these systems operate together to support behaviour.

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Squire, L. R. (2004). Memory systems of the brain: A brief history and current perspective. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 82(3), 171-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2004.06.005

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Procedural Memory Memory Systems

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Memory divides into a system accessible to conscious recollection (declarative memory) and non-declarative systems that are expressed in performance; procedural memory for skills and habits is a non-declarative system supported by the neostriatum and cerebellum rather than the hippocampus