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SUBMITTER: Yonelinas AP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7233541 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yonelinas Andrew P AP Ranganath Charan C Ekstrom Arne D AD Wiltgen Brian J BJ
Nature reviews. Neuroscience 20190601 6
Episodic memory reflects the ability to recollect the temporal and spatial context of past experiences. Episodic memories depend on the hippocampus but have been proposed to undergo rapid forgetting unless consolidated during offline periods such as sleep to neocortical areas for long-term storage. Here, we propose an alternative to this standard systems consolidation theory (SSCT) - a contextual binding account - in which the hippocampus binds item-related and context-related information. We co ...[more]