Hippocampal Dependent Memory Supports Communication and Language

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18 - Hippocampal Dependent Memory Supports Communication and Language

Implications for Cognitive-Communication Disorders

from Part VI - New Directions and Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2025

Melissa C. Duff and

Natalie V. Covington

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Edna Andrews and

Swathi Kiran

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Edna Andrews: Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
Swathi Kiran: Affiliation:
Boston University

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The study of individuals with hippocampal damage and amnesia provides a compelling opportunity to directly test the role of declarative memory to communication and language. Over the past two decades, we have documented disruptions in discourse and conversation as well as in more basic aspects of language in individuals with hippocampal amnesia including at the word, phrase, and sentence level across offline and online language processing tasks. This work highlights the critical contribution of hippocampal-dependent memory to language and communication and suggests that hippocampal damage or dysfunction is a risk factor for a range of language and communicative disruptions even in the absence of frank disorders of amnesia or aphasia. This work also raises questions about the reality and utility of the historical distinction between communication and language in defining cognitive-communication disorders as individuals with isolated memory impairments show deficits that cut across both communication and language.

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