The size of the hippocampus, an important structure in the brain's memory circuit, is typically measured as one method to determine the integrity of the memory circuit. However, the shape of this ...

A study of neural circuits that underlie memory consolidation reveals memories are formed simultaneously in the hippocampus and long-term storage location of brain's cortex, with long-term ...

The size of the hippocampus, an important structure in the brain's memory circuit, is typically measured as one method to determine the integrity of the memory circuit. However, the shape of this ...

new neurons not only insinuate themselves into functional memory circuits in the hippocampus, but that they are much more likely to do so than older neurons. The finding hints that there may be more ...

An index of memories To encode spatial memory, place cells in the hippocampus work closely with grid cells—a special type of neuron that fires at many different locations, arranged geometrically ...

it is essential to unravel the complicated wiring of the memory circuits composed by the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex," said Shinya Ohara, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of ...

“We hypothesized that the hippocampus leverages distinct circuit mechanisms to balance the increase in firing rates during memory consolidation,” the team continued. The hippocampus is divided ...

This study already showed that communication between the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus is critical, because blocking the circuit connecting those two regions prevented the cortical memory ...