Opening the doors of memory: is declarative memory a natural kind?

What is episodic memory if it is a natural kind?

Is Episodic Memory a Natural Kind? - A Defense of the Sequence Analysis

Colloquially, episodic memory is described as "the memory of personally experienced events". Here we ask how episodic memory should be characterized in order to be validated as a natural kind. We propose to conceive of episodic memory as a knowledge-like state that is identified with an experientially based mnemonic representation of an episode. We discuss selected experimental results that pro...

Declarative Memory: A Reply

In Nadel’s comment on our study (Zola-Morgan et al., 1994), he reiterates the view that the hippocampus has a selective role in spatial memory, i.e., the hippocampus stores information about nonegocentric space (viewpoint-independent space; O’Keefe and Nadel, 1978; Nadel, 199 1). In the context of our report, he points out that four monkeys with lesions limited to the hippocampal region (the H ...

Psychometric Properties of the Persian Word Pairs Task for Declarative Memory Assessment

Objective: According to the declarative/procedural model, the semantic aspect of language depends on the brain structures responsible for declarative memory. The word pairs task is a common tool for evaluating declarative memory. The current study aimed to design a valid and reliable task for evaluating declarative memory in Persian children at learning and retention stages and to investigate i...

Is the Hippocampus responsible for Declarative Conscious Memory ?

Researchers have generally agreed the hippocampus is essential in developing memory. The skull envelopes the brain all of which has four lobes: frontal, occipital, partial, and temporal. Each lobe serves a function; Lobe 1-frontal: rationale and personality; Lobe 2-occipital: visual perception; Lobe 3-parietal: sensory perception and integration of the visual and sensory systems; and Lobe 4-tem...