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How much of the hippocampus can be explained by functional constraints?
Author(s) -
Treves Alessandro,
Skaggs William E.,
Barnes Carol A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
hippocampus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.767
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1098-1063
pISSN - 1050-9631
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-1063(1996)6:6<666::aid-hipo9>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - hippocampus , neuroscience , psychology , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science
In the spirit of Marr, we discuss an information‐theoretic approach that derives, from the role of the hippocampus in memory, constraints on its anatomical and physiological structure. The observed structure is consistent with such constraints, and, further, we relate the quantitative arguments developed in earlier analytical studies to experimental measures extracted from neuronal recordings in the behaving rat. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.