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SUBMITTER: Shrager Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2575247 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shrager Yael Y Kirwan C Brock CB Squire Larry R LR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080807 33
The hippocampus and entorhinal cortex have been linked to both memory functions and to spatial cognition, but it has been unclear how these ideas relate to each other. An important part of spatial cognition is the ability to keep track of a reference location using self-motion cues (sometimes referred to as path integration), and it has been suggested that the hippocampus or entorhinal cortex is essential for this ability. Patients with hippocampal lesions or larger lesions that also included en ...[more]