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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Major Dissociation Between Medial and Lateral Entorhinal Input to Dorsal Hippocampus

   Hargreaves, Rao, Lee and Knierim · Science · 2005

   Recording from the hippocampus and its two entorhinal inputs in behaving rats, the authors report a split: medial entorhinal cells carry spatial information, lateral ones appear nonspatial.

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   1. UncheckedIn recorded rats, many medial entorhinal neurons fired in highly specific places, while lateral entorhinal neurons showed only weak spatial specificity.“Although many medial entorhinal neurons had highly specific place fields, lateral entorhinal neurons displayed weak spatial specificity.”
   2. UncheckedIn behaving rats, medial entorhinal neurons carried spatial information to the hippocampus, while lateral entorhinal neurons showed weak spatial specificity.“This finding demonstrates a fundamental dissociation between the information conveyed to the hippocampus by its major input streams, with spatial information represented by the medial and nonspatial information represented by the lateral entorhinal cortex.”