Hence, in both the relational memory theory and the processing-based model, conscious awareness of encoding and retrieval is not a precondition for hippocampal processing.

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This valuable manuscript addresses the longstanding question of how the brain maintains serial order in working memory, proposing a biologically grounded model based on synaptic augmentation ...

These findings not only deepen our understanding of memory encoding and retrieval but also provide insights into the hippocampus’s role as a coordinator and its interaction with the neocortex.

We fail to retrieve a memory because of a discrepancy between the retrieval context and the encoding context. When we’re unhappy, we find it difficult to remember happy events.

There are three important aspects to memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval. encoding is how we get information into the brain. storage is how we retain information over time.

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Activity in the hippocampus, precuneus, visual cortices, and other language-related frontal regions of the brain suggested memory retrieval mechanisms were more strongly encoded in the paper group.