This would be similar to what occurs in declarative or explicit learning: initially, both the hippocampus and neocortex are involved, but once the hippocampus has slowly taught the neocortex the memory, the memory persists without the aid of the hippocampus
The ability of humans to explicitly learn anything also complicates the ways in which purely behavioral learning paths are necessarily implicated in results in humans. i woud say most learning is by experience even when explicitly taught but it leaves the door open.
