A model of episodic memory: Mental time travel along encoded trajectories using grid cells

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 559-573

  Hasselmo, Michael E ^a  

^a Center for Memory and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Episodic memory; Grid cells; Head direction cells; Hippocampus; Place cells; Postsubiculum; Spatial cognition; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER MODEL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 69949097299     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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