title: Computational approaches to hippocampal function.
abstract: The results of theoretical work have led researchers to suggest that the hippocampal formation may maximize its memory storage capacity by recoding events into patterns that are as dissimilar to one another, and which use as few neurons per event, as possible.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724.
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Skaggs
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: McNaughton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology