When neurons form memories.
Although long-term memory is central among our cognitive functions, the search for a direct neurophysiological correlate to it has proven difficult. The formation of new memories depends on the hippocampus and adjacent cortex, but the final storage is thought to be in a widely distributed neocortical network. Recent experiments, using simultaneous recordings from hundreds of sites in monkey neocortex, have revealed the activation of such a distributed network -- probably reflecting the consolidation of long-term memory storage.
Fries
Pascal
P
F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Adelbertusplein 1, 6525 EK Nijmegen, The Netherlands. pascal.fries@fcdonders.kun.nl
Fernández
Guillén
G
Jensen
Ole
O
D000818:Animals; D000882:Haplorhini; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D019579:Neocortex / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*