A signature of attractor dynamics in the CA3 region of the hippocampus.
The notion of attractor networks is the leading hypothesis for how associative memories are stored and recalled. A defining anatomical feature of such networks is excitatory recurrent connections. These "attract" the firing pattern of the network to a stored pattern, even when the external...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-05-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4031055?pdf=render |