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Overworking the hippocampus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Daniel C. Dennett
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford MA 02155. ddennett@emerald.tufts.edu

Abstract

The postulated hippocampal comparator, like any other subsystem, must rely on “syntactic” patterns in its “input,” and hence could not have the extraordinary powers Gray supposes. It may play a more modest role, but it is not the place “where it all comes together” for consciousness.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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