Social and novel contexts modify hippocampal CA2 representations of space

Autor: Georgia M. Alexander, Shannon Farris, Jason R. Pirone, Chenguang Zheng, Laura L. Colgin, Serena M. Dudek
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10300
Popis: Recent work has implicated hippocampal subfield CA2 in encoding social and contextual memory yet the neural mechanisms are not known. Here, Alexander and colleagues demonstrate that, compared to CA1 neurons, CA2 neurons modify their place fields when presented with social or novel stimuli.
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