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Episodic Memory and Consolidation
How much of the hippocampus can be explained by functional constraints?
Article first published online: 7 DEC 1998
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1996)6:6<666::AID-HIPO9>3.0.CO;2-E
Copyright © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Treves, A., Skaggs, W. E. and Barnes, C. A. (1996), How much of the hippocampus can be explained by functional constraints?. Hippocampus, 6: 666–674. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1996)6:6<666::AID-HIPO9>3.0.CO;2-E
Publication History
- Issue published online: 7 DEC 1998
- Article first published online: 7 DEC 1998
- Manuscript Accepted: 15 JUL 1996
Funded by
- Unknown funding agency. Grant Number: Ab 12609
- Unknown funding agency. Grant Number: MH 01227
- Unknown funding agency. Grant Number: CNR 94.02131.CT04
- Unknown funding agency. Grant Number: ERB-CHRX-CT93-0245
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Keywords:
- associative memory;
- storage capacity;
- redundancy;
- forgetting;
- sparse coding
Abstract
In the spirit of Marr, we discuss an information-theoretic approach that derives, from the role of the hippocampus in memory, constraints on its anatomical and physiological structure. The observed structure is consistent with such constraints, and, further, we relate the quantitative arguments developed in earlier analytical studies to experimental measures extracted from neuronal recordings in the behaving rat. © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.