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Amnesia is a memory deficit due to neural damage. The main area of human memory organisation informed by research on amnesic patients is the dissociation between implicit and explicit memory. Amnesic subjects can be compared with subjects without amnesia in task situations in order to highlight the fact that amnesiacs have access to implicit but not explicit memories because of specific neural damage which could be seen to affect the parts of the brain responsible for processing explicit memories. Thi