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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Hippocampal Neurons Encode Information about Different Types of Memory Episodes Occurring in the Same Location

   Wood, Dudchenko, Robitsek and Eichenbaum · Neuron · 2000

   Hippocampal neurons were recorded in rats alternating turns on a T maze, to see whether firing carries memory-relevant information when behaviour and location are held constant.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats alternating turns on a T maze, about two-thirds of hippocampal cells fired differently on the shared stem before left versus right turns.“Two-thirds of the cells fired differentially as the rat traversed the common stem on left-turn and right-turn trials, even when potentially confounding variations in running speed, heading, and position on the stem were taken into account.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Episodic memory: Neuronal codes for what, where, and when

   Sugar and Moser · Hippocampus · 2019

   A review arguing that entorhinal cortex gives the hippocampus instant 'what, where and when' information, which the hippocampus encodes as unique sequences of ensemble activity during episodic memory formation.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper argues that entorhinal cortex supplies the hippocampus with position, timing and content signals about ongoing experience, from three kinds of neurons.“Such information originates from (a) spatially modulated neurons in medial entorhinal cortex, including grid cells, which provide a stable and universal positional metric of the environment; (b) a continuously varying signal in lateral entorhinal cortex providing a code for the temporal progression…”