Thomas D Miller, Christopher Kennard, Penny A Gowland, Chrystalina A Antoniades, Clive R Rosenthal
Learning regularities in the environment is a fundamental of human cognition that is supported by a network of brain regions that include the hippocampus. In two experiments, we assessed the effects of selective bilateral damage to human hippocampal subregion CA3, which was associated with autobiographical episodic amnesia extending ~50 years prior to the damage, on the ability to recognize complex, deterministic event sequences presented either in a spatial or a non-spatial configuration. In contrast to findings from related paradigms, modalities, and homologue species, hippocampal damage did not preclude recognition memory for an event sequence studied and tested at four spatial locations, whereas recognition memory for an event sequence presented at single location was at chance...
February 21, 2024: Cognitive Neuroscience