Aggleton John P, Brown Malcolm W
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2006 Oct;10(10):455-63. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.08.003. Epub 2006 Aug 28.
Conflicting models persist over the nature of long-term memory. Crucial issues are whether episodic memory and recognition memory reflect the same underlying processes, and the extent to which various brain structures work as a single unit to support these processes. New findings that have resulted from improved resolution of functional brain imaging, together with recent studies of amnesia and developments in animal testing, reinforce the view that recognition memory comprises at least two independent processes: one recollective and the other using familiarity detection. Only recollective recognition appears to depend on episodic memory. Attempts to map brain areas supporting these two putative components of recognition memory indicate that they depend on separate, but interlinked, structures.
关于长期记忆的本质，相互矛盾的模型依然存在。关键问题在于情景记忆和识别记忆是否反映相同的潜在过程，以及各种脑结构在多大程度上作为一个整体来支持这些过程。功能脑成像分辨率的提高带来的新发现，以及最近对失忆症的研究和动物测试的进展，强化了这样一种观点，即识别记忆至少包括两个独立的过程：一个是回忆性的，另一个是利用熟悉度检测。只有回忆性识别似乎依赖于情景记忆。试图绘制支持识别记忆这两个假定组成部分的脑区图谱表明，它们依赖于不同但相互关联的结构。
