Strong evidence for pattern separation in human dentate gyrus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 29, 2016, Pages 7569-7579

  Berron, David ^a,b   Schütze, Hartmut ^a   Maass, Anne ^a,b   Cardenas Blanco, Arturo ^b   Kuijf, Hugo J ^c   Kumaran, Dharshan ^d   Düzel, Emrah ^a,b,d  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

7 T fMRI; Hippocampal subfields; Medial temporal lobe; Memory; MVPA; Pattern separation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; NEUROIMAGING; NOVELTY SUPPRESSED FEEDING TEST; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978657131     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0518-16.2016     Document Type: Article

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