Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento, Dementia and Neuropsychologia, 1(14), p. 75-79, 2020
DOI: 10.1590/1980-57642020dn14-010012
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ABSTRACT The nature of memory and the search for its localization have been a subject of interest since Antiquity. After millennia of theoretical concepts, shifting from the heart to the brain, then from the ventricles to solid parts, the core memory-related structures finally began to be identified through modern scientifically-based methods at the diencephalic and cortical (hippocampal and neocortical) levels, mostly in the late Modern period, culminating in the current state of knowledge on the subject.