- 期刊
Multiple Memory Systems in the Brain
大腦中的多樣記憶系統
並列摘要
The brain registers our experience; personal encounters (episodic memory), the facts about our world (semantic memory), many habits and skills (procedural memory), and also the painful and scary encounters (emotional memory). Various subcortical and cortical circuitries are dedicated to the formation and retrieval of these memories. The memory processing can be disrupted with specific brain damage, pathologically or experimentally induced. The disruption is highly selective: certain brain damage interferes with some memories but leaves other memories intact. This article introduces the functional demarcation of memorization and the neural mechanisms. The available data support existence of the triple memory systems in the brain that work independently and in parallel fashion: (a) the hippocampus-declarative memory system, (b) the striatum-procedural memory system, and (c) the amygdala-emotional memory system. These systems often interact to weaken or strengthen the memory retrieval.