A cellular stapler for memories

In this issue of Neuron, Zhao et al. (2022) describe the effects of plateau potentials, discharges common in hippocampus but rare in cortex. They show that plateau potentials can staple a nonspatial tag about a plan to the hippocampal place map. Memory stapling is a key functionality that cortex cannot perform without hippocampus

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This paper discusses the effects of plateau potentials in the hippocampus and cortex. The researchers found that plateau potentials can integrate nonspatial information with spatial maps, which is a functionality that the cortex cannot perform.