<P> Some of the child 's primary experiences are positive and essential for the physical and mental growth of the child . Others may be traumatic : neglect , parental inadequacy or possible mental illness , physical or psychological violence , child abuse , even of a sexual nature , as well as the constant frustrations and disillusionments that lead the child to organize its defences and boost its phantasies . All these experiences can not be repressed because the hippocampus , necessary for the explicit memory , which is in turn indispensable for repression , is not mature in early infancy ( R. Joseph , 1996 ; Siegel , 1999 ) . On the contrary , the amygdala , which promotes the organization of the implicit memory , undergoes an earlier maturation ( R. Joseph , 1996 ) . Therefore , these early experiences , including those that concern the organization of language , can only be deposited in this latter form of memory and they contribute to the formation of an early unrepressed unconscious nucleus of the self ( Mancia , 2003a , in press ) . </P>
<P> Some of the child 's primary experiences are positive and essential for the physical and mental growth of the child . Others may be traumatic : neglect , parental inadequacy or possible mental illness , physical or psychological violence , child abuse , even of a sexual nature , as well as the constant frustrations and disillusionments that lead the child to organize its defences and boost its phantasies . All these experiences can not be repressed because the hippocampus , necessary for the explicit memory , which is in turn indispensable for repression , is not mature in early infancy ( R. Joseph , 1996 ; Siegel , 1999 ) . On the contrary , the amygdala , which promotes the organization of the implicit memory , undergoes an earlier maturation ( R. Joseph , 1996 ) . Therefore , these early experiences , including those that concern the organization of language , can only be deposited in this latter form of memory and they contribute to the formation of an early unrepressed unconscious nucleus of the self ( Mancia , 2003a , in press ) . </P>
where is implicit memory stored in the brain
where is implicit memory stored in the brain
amygdala
amygdala