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.
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Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology, Boston University, 64 Cummington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. hbe@bu.edu
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