Long-term coding of personal and universal associations underlying the memory web in the human brain

Neurons in the medial temporal lobe change their firing patterns as people learn to pair items together, yet it is unclear if this pairing lasts. Here, authors find that single medial temporal lobe neurons in humans tend to respond similarly to items that are closely conceptually related.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Emanuela De Falco, Matias J. Ison, Itzhak Fried, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13408