Role of the hippocampus in memory

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• Alkire, M. T., Haier, R. J., Fallon, J. H., and Cahill, L. (1998). Hippocampal, but not amygdala activity at encoding correlates with long-term, free recall of nonemotional material , Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, USA 95, 14506-10.
• Da Cunha, C., Wolfman, C., Huang, C., Walz, R., Koya, R., Bianchin, M., Medina, J. H. and Izquierdo, I. (1991). Effect of posttraining injections of flumazenil into the amygdala, hippocampus and septum on retention of habituation and of inhibitory avoidance in rats , Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 24 301-6.
• Fortin, N. J., Agster, K. L. and Eichenbaum, H. B. (2002). Critical role of the hippocampus in memory for sequences of events , Nature Neuroscience 5, 458-62.
• Izquierdo, I., Quillfeldt, J. A., Zanatta, M. S., Quevedo, J, Schaeffer, E., Schmitz, P. K. and Medina J. H. (1997). Sequential role of hippocampus and amygdala, entorhinal cortex and parietal cortex in formation and retrieval of memory for inhibitory avoidance in rats , European Journal of Neuroscience 9, 786-93
• McClelland, J. L., McNaughton, B. L., and O Reilly, R. C. (1995). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory , Psychological Review 102, 419-57.
• Maguire E. A., Frackowiak, R. S. J. and Frith, C. D. (1997). Recalling routes around London: activation of the right hippocampus in taxi drivers , Journal of Neuroscience 17, 7103-10.
• Packard, M. G. and McGaugh, J. L. (1996). Inactivation of hippocampus or caudate nucleus with lidocaine differentially affects expression of place and response learning , Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 65, 65-72.
• Packard, M. G, Cahill, L. and McGaugh, J. L. (1994). Amygdala modulation of hippocampal-dependent and caudate nucleus-dependent memory processes , Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, USA 91, 8477-81
• Packard, M. G., and Teather, L. (1998). Amygdala modulation of multiple memory systems: Hippocampus and caudate-putamen , Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 69, 163-203.
• Packard, M. G. (1999). Glutamate infused post-training into the hippocampus or caudate-putamen differentially strengthens place and response

learning , Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, USA 96, 12881-6.