Tracking the flow of hippocampal computation: Pattern separation, pattern completion, and attractor dynamics

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 129, Issue , 2016, Pages 38-49

  Knierim, James J ^a   Neunuebel, Joshua P ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractors; CA3; Dentate gyrus; Pattern completion; Pattern separation; Place cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEDIAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MODEL; NONHUMAN; ROTATION; THALAMUS; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CUES; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; RATS; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84960309242     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.10.008     Document Type: Review

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