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TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 16, Issue 8, Pages 427-436Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.06.006
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [NS033221]
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Transformation of experience into memories that can guide future behavior is a common ability across species. However, only humans can declare their perceptions and memories of experienced events (episodes). The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is central to episodic memory, yet the neuronal code underlying the translation from sensory information to memory remains unclear. Recordings from neurons within the brain in patients who have electrodes implanted for clinical reasons provide an opportunity to bridge physiology with cognitive theories. Recent evidence illustrates several striking response properties of MTL neurons. Responses are selective yet invariant, associated with conscious perception, can be internally generated and modulated, and spontaneously retrieved. Representation of information by these neurons is highly explicit, suggesting abstraction of information for future conscious recall.
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