Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Mnemonic convergence in the human hippocampus

  • Alexander R. Backus,
  • Sander E. Bosch,
  • Matthias Ekman,
  • Alejandro Vicente Grabovetsky,
  • Christian F. Doeller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11991
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The ability to form associations between events is the hallmark of episodic memory and is thought to involve the hippocampus. Here the authors use a combination of multivariate pattern and graph theoretical network analyses of functional imaging data in humans, and show conjunctive coding and hub-like network attributes in the hippocampus.