1999/06/01 by Andrew P. Yonelinas, Neal E. A. Kroll, Ian G. Dobbins +3
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Anatomy #Audiology #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Dissociation (chemistry) #Dorsum #Hippocampal formation #Medicine #Memory Processes and Influences #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Neural dynamics and brain function #Neuroscience #Perirhinal cortex #Psychology #Recall #Recognition memory #Stimulus (psychology)
paper · doi:10.1017/s0140525x9946203x
openalex publication_date 1999/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Aggleton & Brown argue that a hippocampal-anterior thalamic system supports the “recollection” of contextual information about previous events, and that a separate perirhinal-medial dorsal thalamic system supports detection of stimulus “familiarity.” Although there is a growing body of human literature that is in agreement with these claims, when recollection and familiarity have been examined in amnesics using the process dissociation or the remember/know procedures, the results do not seem to provide consistent support. We reexamine these studies and describe the results of an additional experiment using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) technique. The results of the reanalysis and the ROC experiment are consistent with Aggleton & Brown's proposal. Patients with damage to both regions exhibit severe deficits in recollection and smaller, but consistent, deficits in familiarity.