Computational analysis of the role of the hippocampus in memory

Computational analysis of the role of the hippocampus in memory (1994)

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by Ro Treves , Edmund T. Rolls

Venue:	Hippocampus
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TITLE	Computational analysis of the role of the hippocampus in memory	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Ro Treves	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road,	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	Oxford, England	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Edmund T. Rolls	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road,	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	Oxford, England	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	The authors draw together the results of a series of detailed computational studies and show how they are contributing to the development of a theory of hippocampal function. A new part of the theory introduced here is a quantitative analysis of how backprojections from the hippocampus to the neocortex could lead to the recall of recent memories. The theory is then compared with other theories of hippocampal function. First, what is computed by the hippocampus is considered. The hypothesis the authors advocate, on the basis of the effects of damage to the hippocampus and neuronal activity recorded in it, is that it is involved in the formation of new memories by acting as an intermediate-term buffer store for information about episodes, particularly for spatial, but probably also for some nonspatial, information. The authors analyze how the hippocampus could perform this function, by producing a computational theory of how it operates, based on neuroanatomical and neurophysiological information about the different neuronal systems con-tained within the hippocampus. Key hypotheses are that the CA3 pyramidal cells operate as a single autoassociation network to store new episodic information as it arrives via a number of specialized preprocessing stages from many association areas of the cerebral cortex, and that the dentate	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1994	INFERENCE
VENUE	Hippocampus	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	374--391	INFERENCE
VOLUME	4	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	84 found	ParsCit 1.0