Journal
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
Volume 83, Issue -, Pages 227-241Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.12.016
Keywords
Perception; Memory; Concept cells; Neuronal coding; Memory models
Funding
- Human Frontiers Science Program [RGP0015/2013]
- MRC [G0701038] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0701038] Funding Source: researchfish
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In this review, I describe and contrast the representation of stimuli in visual cortical areas and in the medial temporal lobe (MTL). While cortex is characterized by a distributed and implicit coding that is optimal for recognition and storage of semantic information, the MTL shows a much sparser and explicit coding of specific concepts that is ideal for episodic memory. I will describe the main characteristics of the coding in the MTL by the so-called concept cells and will then propose a model of the formation and recall of episodic memory based on partially overlapping assemblies. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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