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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Main Authors: César Rennó-Costa, John E Lisman, Paul F M J Verschure
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4031055?pdf=render