Orchestrated ensemble activities constitute a hippocampal memory engram

Orchestrated ensemble activities constitute a hippocampal memory engram

The brain stores memories through a set of neurons known as engram cells. Here, the authors show that engram cells in the mouse hippocampus are organized into sub-ensembles representing distinct pieces of information, which are then orchestrated to constitute an entire memory.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Khaled Ghandour, Noriaki Ohkawa, Chi Chung Alan Fung, Hirotaka Asai, Yoshito Saitoh, Takashi Takekawa, Reiko Okubo-Suzuki, Shingo Soya, Hirofumi Nishizono, Mina Matsuo, Makoto Osanai, Masaaki Sato, Masamichi Ohkura, Junichi Nakai, Yasunori Hayashi, Takeshi Sakurai, Takashi Kitamura, Tomoki Fukai, Kaoru Inokuchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10683-2

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10683-2

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