High acetylcholine levels set circuit dynamics for attention and encoding and low acetylcholine levels set dynamics for consolidation.
Hasselmo
Michael E
ME
Department of Psychology, Center for Memory and Brain, Program in Neuroscience, Boston University, 2 Cummington St., Boston, MA 02215, USA. hasselmo@bu.edu
McGaughy
Jill
J
D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000097:blood*; D000200:Action Potentials; D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007395:Interneurons / Q000502:physiology; D019579:Neocortex / Q000502:physiology; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000502:physiology; D009833:Olfactory Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology
D000109:Acetylcholine