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This paper examines how human memory organization has been a topic of psychological and psychiatric study for many years, particularly in the area of the relation between brain injury and memory organization. It looks at how researchers have begun to study the data of patients who do not have brain disease or neurological issues and how these studies have assisted scientists in determining how memory is organized in undamaged subjects.

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"Studies have also shown that there are different pathways for different types of memory. Ungerleider and Mishkin found, in 1982, that a pathway in the brain from the occipital lobe to the parietal lobe was responsible for spatial perception. Another pathway, that of semantic information, is formed through a route from the occipital to temporal lobes. The result of these two pathways is that there is a different brain pattern between knowing where an object is, and knowing what an object is (Wilson, et al, 1997)."

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