Regardless, the above findings suggest that very young infants are potentially utilising a more sophisticated form of memory than many theories of early memory development would suggest.
The accumulation of plaques, the development of the inflammation response, and the impairment in memory formation would suggest that synaptic activity will be affected.
While these results may seem to be in contrast to the existing neuroimaging literature that has been used to support the view that the hippocampal region is specifically involved in the recollective or associative component of declarative memory, we would suggest that the present results are largely consistent with these existing data.
If the scans reveal children with the mutation have Alzheimer's-like anomalies, like atrophy in the hippocampus, which is involved in forming new memories, that would suggest the brain begins transforming decades before symptoms appear.
Identification of homologous genes that display the same memory-type responses would suggest evolutionarily conserved memory responses in two lineages that have diverged over 140 to 200 M years [ 11].
If these findings are replicated across a variety of different procedures, including ones that use eyewitness memory tasks, it would suggest that less weight should be placed on an eyewitness's account if the eyewitness produces many inconsistencies.
Structurally related genes that display the same transcriptional memory in the two species would suggest conservation of memory during the evolution of monocot and eudicot dehydration stress response systems.
On the other hand, divergent transcriptional responses by genes encoding similar functions would suggest memory behavior reflecting species-specific responses to repeated exposures to dehydration stress.
Crick and Mitchinson (1983) famously proposed that REM sleep "erases" or deletes surplus information and unnecessary memories, which, if true, would suggest that enhanced dream recall might actually undermine the effectiveness of the memory-erasing system.
Structurally related genes displaying the same memory responses in the two species would suggest conservation of the genes' memory during the evolution of plants' dehydration stress response systems.
