The hippocampus receives its major cortical input from the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC)
and the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC). It is commonly believed that the MEC provides …

The ability to recognize a previously experienced stimulus is supported by two processes:
recollection of the stimulus in the context of other information associated with the …

By utilizing new information from both clinical and experimental (lesion, electrophysiological,
and gene-activation) studies with animals, the anatomy underlying anterograde amnesia …

Abstract Information concerning the roles of different brain regions in recognition memory
processes is reviewed. The review concentrates on findings from spontaneous recognition …

The amygdaloid nuclear complex is critical for producing appropriate emotional and
behavioral responses to biologically relevant sensory stimuli. It constitutes an essential link …

The hallmark of medial temporal lobe amnesia is a loss of episodic memory such that
patients fail to remember new events that are set in an autobiographical context (an …

Some theories of memory propose that the hippocampus integrates the individual items and
events of experience within a contextual or spatial framework. The hippocampus receives …

Animals can navigate vast distances and often display behaviours or activities that indicate a
detailed, internal spatial representation of their surrounding environment or a 'cognitive …

This article reviews findings up to the end of 1997 about the inducible transcription factors
(ITFs) c-Jun, JunB, JunD, c-Fos, FosB, Fra-1, Fra-2, Krox-20 (Egr-2) and Krox-24 (NGFI-A …

The first experiment assessed the effects of neurotoxic lesions in either the anterior cingulate
cortex (ACc) or the retrosplenial cortex (RSc) on a test of object recognition. Neither lesion …