The hippocampus—what does it do?
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1986 • 247 citations
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1988 • 225 citations
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1988 • 212 citations
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1986 • 201 citations
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1981 • 200 citations
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1984 • 196 citations
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1989 • 190 citations
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1979 • 187 citations
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1988 • 183 citations
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1986 • 179 citations
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1989 • 179 citations
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1984 • 147 citations
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1988 • 146 citations
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1991 • 136 citations
Hippocampal and amygdaloid involvement in working memory for nonspatial stimuli.
1988 • 136 citations
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1988 • 132 citations
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1987 • 130 citations
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1989 • 128 citations
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1986 • 123 citations
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1986 • 120 citations
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1989 • 79 citations
Topography Of Cognition: Parallel Distributed Networks In Primate Association Cortex
1988 • 77 citations
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1979 • 70 citations
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1990 • 66 citations
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1985 • 60 citations
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1984 • 57 citations
Hippocampal Function and Memory for Temporal Context
1986 • 56 citations
Place recognition responses of neurons in monkey hippocampus
1991 • 55 citations
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1986 • 54 citations
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1984 • 53 citations
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1989 • 51 citations
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1973 • 50 citations
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1986 • 37 citations
Differential effects of posterior septal lesions on dispositional and representational memory.
1986 • 34 citations
Human Organic Memory Disorders
1989 • 27 citations
Amnesia and Distributed Memory
1986 • 22 citations
Visual And Eye Movement Functions Of The Posterior Parietal Cortex
1989 • 20 citations
Deleted Work
1955 • 0 citations