We argue that semantic memory, like episodic memory, is a highly flexible, (re)constructive, relational and multimodal system, and that there is value in developing methods and materials that fully capture this depth and richness to facilitate comparisons to episodic memory. With the perspective of time and this critical review, we arrive at the interpretation that the hippocampus does indeed make necessary contributions to semantic memory. The second goal of this review is to provide a synthesis of new findings on the role of the hippocampus and semantic memory. First, we provide a historical lens with which to reevaluate and contextualize the literature on semantic memory and the hippocampus. In line with these advances, this review has two primary goals. More recently, a number of significant advances in experimental methods have occurred, alongside new provocative data on the role of the hippocampus in semantic memory, making this an ideal moment to revisit this debate, to re-evaluate data, methods, and theories, and to synthesize new findings.
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This debate stems, in part, from highly variable reports of new semantic memory learning in amnesia ranging from profound impairment to full preservation, and various degrees of deficit and ability in between.
In contrast to the definitive evidence for the link between hippocampus and episodic memory, the role of the hippocampus in semantic memory has been a topic of considerable debate. Of particular interest has been the extent to which semantic and episodic memory have a shared dependence on the hippocampus. Since Tulving proposed a distinction in memory between semantic and episodic memory, considerable effort has been directed towards understanding their similar and unique features. 2Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, United States.1Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States.Covington 1, Caitlin Hilverman 1 and Neal J.
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