Memory for relationships among items, places, contexts or events. Flexible use of a learned relation in a new query is more informative about relational structure than repetition of a practiced stimulus–response choice.
An account assigning the hippocampus a role in organizing related experiences and permitting their flexible expression. The proposed computation can operate on spatial and nonspatial information. It is a theory whose parts require tests, rather than a synonym for every task affected by hippocampal damage.[ref]
The hippocampus and mechanisms of declarative memory by Howard Eichenbaum. 1999, proposed organization and flexible expression of relational representations
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