Repeating spatial activations in human entorhinal cortex.

ABSTRACT: The ability to remember and navigate spatial environments is critical for everyday life. A primary mechanism by which the brain represents space is through hippocampal place cells, which indicate when an animal is at a particular location. An important issue is understanding how the hippocampal place-cell network represents specific properties of the environment, such as signifying that a particular position is near a doorway or that another position is near the end of a corridor. The entorhinal cortex (EC), as the main input to the hippocampus, may play a key role in coding these properties because it contains neurons that activate at multiple related positions per environment. We examined the diversity of spatial coding across the human medial temporal lobe by recording neuronal activity

SUBMITTER: Miller JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422049 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature