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SUBMITTER: Bulkin DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4912442 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bulkin David A DA Law L Matthew LM Smith David M DM
Hippocampus 20160321 7
Returning to a familiar context triggers retrieval of relevant memories, making memories from other contexts less likely to intrude and cause interference. We investigated the physiology that underlies the use of context to prevent interference by recording hippocampal neurons while rats learned two conflicting sets of discrimination problems, either in the same context or in two distinct contexts. Rats that learned the conflicting problem sets in the same context maintained similar neural repre ...[more]