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SUBMITTER: Wang C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6261310 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Cheng C Chen Xiaojing X Lee Heekyung H Deshmukh Sachin S SS Yoganarasimha D D Savelli Francesco F Knierim James J JJ
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20181101 6417
Episodic memory, the conscious recollection of past events, is typically experienced from a first-person (egocentric) perspective. The hippocampus plays an essential role in episodic memory and spatial cognition. Although the allocentric nature of hippocampal spatial coding is well understood, little is known about whether the hippocampus receives egocentric information about external items. We recorded in rats the activity of single neurons from the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) and medial en ...[more]