The hippocampus and memory: insights from spatial processing

• Published in: Nature reviews. Neuroscience Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 182 - 194
• Main Authors: Bird, Chris M., Burgess, Neil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.03.2008; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Animal Genetics and Genomics; Animals; Behavioral psychophysiology; Behavioral Sciences; Biological and medical sciences; Biological Techniques; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Electrophysiology; Eye and associated structures. Visual pathways and centers. Vision; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hippocampus (Brain); Hippocampus - physiology; Humans; Memory; Memory - physiology; Models, Neurological; Neurobiology; Neurosciences; Physiological aspects; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; review-article; Semantics; Space Perception - physiology; Spatial Behavior - physiology; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; United Kingdom; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Central nervous system; Rodentia; Models; Review; Imagery; Long term; Hippocampus; Encephalon; Spatial memory

Key Points Damage to the hippocampus in humans can cause profound impairments in long-term episodic memory, but the precise functional contribution of the hippocampus remains the subject of several competing theories. Electrophysiological studies in rodents have characterized the firing properties o...