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Which type of memory is described as involving mechanisms fundamentally different from long-term memory?
Short-term memory
What was one of the most important advances in the twentieth century mentioned in the text?
Discovery of patient H.M.
Which region of the brain do memories associated with consciousness depend on, as indicated in the text?
Medial temporal lobe regions
What historical case in 1957 significantly advanced the understanding of memory systems?
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What did researchers reasonably assume regarding tasks impaired by medial temporal lobe damage in animals, as per the text?
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What did psychologists find evidence of during the 1970s, regarding retaining information across delays of seconds or minutes?
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What concept, originally about simple maintenance of information, was later expanded into the notion of including operations performed on the information being maintained and mechanisms of attention allocation?
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In parallel with the research on H.M.'s case, what did psychologists find evidence of in normal human participants regarding retaining information across delays of seconds or minutes?
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What did behavioral neuroscientists attempt to produce as a non-human animal model of H.M.'s amnesia?
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What did researchers reasonably assume regarding tasks impaired by medial temporal lobe damage in animals, as per the text?
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