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Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions.
Paper summary
Reports persistent recent-memory impairment following bilateral medial-temporal resections involving the hippocampal region. Formal testing across surgical cases connects lesion extent with memory outcomes.
Relevance to the project
A classic intervention example for separating memory functions and testing causal machinery. It supports targeted disruption experiments rather than inferring memory solely from activity.
Lesions involve multiple structures and do not isolate one universal memory variable.
Source record
- Reference ID
- pmc-pmc497229
- Archived version
- Publisher/repository PDF linked by Europe PMC; see source
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pmc-pmc497229/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.