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Dentate gyrus and hilar region revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Conor Houghton*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UB, United Kingdomconor.houghton@bristol.ac.ukhttp://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/cscjh/

Abstract

It is suggested that the dentate gyrus and hilar region in the hippocampus perform memory selection and that the selectivity of the gating of memory by this circuit is modulated by the norepinephrine–glutamate loop described by Mather et al.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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