Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Encoding of long-term associations through neural unitization in the human medial temporal lobe

  • Hernan G. Rey,
  • Emanuela De Falco,
  • Matias J. Ison,
  • Antonio Valentin,
  • Gonzalo Alarcon,
  • Richard Selway,
  • Mark P. Richardson,
  • Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06870-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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In this work, the authors recorded single neurons and field potentials from the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) and show indistinguishable responses to associated stimuli. This coding mechanism provides a simple and flexible way of encoding memories in the human MTL.