Hippocampal place cells demand attention.
Hippocampal representations of the environment are thought to play a fundamental role in the encoding, storage, and retrieval of declarative memory. In this issue of Neuron, Kentros and coworkers show that new hippocampal representations stabilize only when animals are attentive.
Moser
Edvard I
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Centre for the Biology of Memory, NTNU, NO-7489 Trondheim, Norway.
D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans