Neural Pathways to
Long term memory
Presented by: Gerald Lai, Scott Nisbitt, Ed Fong, Phat Ha

Long term memory (LTM) was once thought of as a huge database (Allard, 2001) where information was simply filed away in the same manner as a filing cabinet. LTM is often studied with normal people to assess its limits and characteristics. In order to determine the neural pathways to LTM, however, we must start with a brain that is damaged and then assess the deficiencies that individual faces with respect to LTM. This deficiency may arise from an accident, pathology, or in the case of animal models, intentionally inflicted. Today LTM in humans is believed to be partitioned into specialised modules: