The hippocampus: The shock of the new.
Recent successes in functional brain imaging have suggested that the hippocampus is part of a novelty-detection network; but consideration of the available evidence and of the cognitive demands of novelty processing suggests that things are not so simple.
Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology, Boston University, 64 Cummington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. hbe@bu.edu
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