The student counterargument appeals to the HM case and related animal or cognitive-science evidence to argue that long-term memory function depends on the hippocampus in relation to the cortex.
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Hippocampus
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...very famous case of this person called HM he had his hippocampus was um damaged and so he no longer had long -term memory..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...very famous case of this person called HM he had his hippocampus was um damaged and so he no longer had long -term memory..."
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Jiang treats hippocampal decline or age-related forgetting as evidence of degraded access rather than decisive proof that memory itself is stored only in the affected brain region.
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"...very famous case of this person called HM he had his hippocampus was um damaged and so he no longer had long -term memory..."
"It's that he was not able to form long -term memories."
"...getting older and older, and he got a part of his hippocampus degraded, and then he forgot a lot of things. He even forgot..."
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"...the brain where it is stored yeah see me no the hippocampus no it's not we don't know where it's stored there are certain..."
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