Journal
HIPPOCAMPUS
Volume 25, Issue 6, Pages 719-725Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22453
Keywords
place cells; grid cells; memory; entorhinal cortex
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- NIH [R01 NS039456, R01 MH094146, R01 MH079511]
- Science of Learning Institute of Johns Hopkins University
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A longstanding debate in hippocampus research has revolved around how to reconcile spatial mapping functions of the hippocampus with the global amnesia produced by hippocampal damage in humans. Is the hippocampus primarily a cognitive map used to support spatial learning, or does it support more general types of learning necessary for declarative memory? In recent years, a general consensus has emerged that the hippocampus receives both spatial and nonspatial inputs from the entorhinal cortex. The hippocampus creates representations of experience in a particular spatial and temporal context. This process allows the individual components of experience to be stored in such a way that they can be retrieved together as a conscious recollection. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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