It's About Time: Temporal Dynamics of Dentate Gyrus Pattern Separation

Neuron
Xiaojing Chen, James J Knierim

Abstract

The dentate gyrus (DG) is hypothesized to be a pattern separator crucial for distinguishing similar memories. In this issue of Neuron, a new study by van Dijk and Fenton (2018) revealed that transient changes of firing patterns of DG ensembles, but not the remapping of session-averaged place fields, contributed to a place discrimination task.

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