title: Hippocampo-cortical and cortico-cortical backprojections.
abstract: First, the information represented in the primate hippocampus, and what is computed by the primate hippocampus, are considered. Then a theory is described of how the information represented in the hippocampus is able to influence the cerebral cortex by a hierarchy of hippocampo-cortical and cortico-cortical backprojection stages. The recalled backprojected information in the cerebral neocortex could then be used by the neocortex as part of memory recall, including that required in spatial working memory; to influence the processing that each cortical stage performs based on its forward inputs; to influence the formation of long-term memories; and/or in the selection of appropriate actions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK. Edmund.Rolls@psy.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Rolls
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D004525:Efferent Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology; D008959:Models, Neurological; D019579:Neocortex / Q000502:physiology; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology