摘要: [ Howard Eichenbaum ][1] In this issue of Science , Vargha-Khadem et al .][2] report that three patients who had very specific loss their hippocampi within the first few years life showed a severe episodic memory (our record personal events), but semantic lifetime accumulation universal factual knowledge) was intact. his Perspective, explains what these results mean for classification different types and correspondence with distinct regions brain. He outlines emerging notion hippocampus as area facilitates associations memories from perceptual modalities (a face particular voice, example). [1]: http://www.sciencemag.org#affiliation [2]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/277/5324/376