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In Experiment 2, rats received hippocampal damage before learning and required approximately twice as many trials to acquire the visual discrimination as control rats, suggesting that, when the overshadowing or competition is removed, the non-hippocampal memory systems only slowly acquires the discrimination. In Experiment 3, increasing the additional learning beyond criterion by 230 trials, the amount needed in Experiment 2 to train the non-hippocampal systems in absence of competition, successfully prevented the retrograde amnesic effects of post-training hippocampal damage. 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