= Hippocampus
= Hippocampal
{synonym}
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.
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{title=<Hippocampus> circuitry drawn by <Santiago Ramón y Cajal>, 1911}
{description=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>. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/[Source usage terms].}
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