A brain structure involved in episodic memory and spatial processing. In computational accounts, dentate gyrus input transformation, recurrent hippocampal CA3 processing and hippocampal CA1 output processing supply complementary operations; these assignments are hypotheses constrained by recordings and interventions.
Hippocampus circuitry drawn by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1911
. Historical drawing of the rodent hippocampus by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, attributed on Commons to his Histologie du Système nerveux de l'Homme et des Vertébrés, Paris: A. Maloine, 1911. Public domain under the life-plus-70-year term recorded on Commons. This is an anatomical illustration, rather than a recording of episodic memory. Source usage terms. Source.
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