Context representations, context functions, and the parahippocampal- hippocampal system

Learning and Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 573-585

  Rudy, Jerry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONFLICT; CONTEXT FUNCTION; CONTEXT REPRESENTATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIFE EVENT; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS;

EID: 70349666997     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1494409     Document Type: Review

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