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I study brains and sometimes use one.
Feb 8 14 tweets 4 min read
The traditional view of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) is that it is a "declarative memory system": necessary for long-term episodic memory but not other domains of cognition. Is that really true?

A thread of how there is no such thing as a dedicated "episodic memory system" "Episodic memory systems" play a role in attention

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