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Science 3 September 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5433, pp. 1503 - 1504
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5433.1503
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Remembrance of Things Past

Daniel L. Schacter and Anthony D. Wagner

We form memories of all our daily encounters with events and objects, yet some of these experiences we remember and others we forget. There has been much debate about which regions of the brain's medial temporal lobe (MTL) are involved in encoding the experience and then forming memories of it. In their Perspective, Schacter and Wagner discuss new findings (Fernandez et al.) that implicate both the anterior and posterior MTL in the memorizing of words and their subsequent recall.

The authors are in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, and Massachusetts General Hospital Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA. E-mail: dls{at}wjh.harvard.edu

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