The prefrontal cortex participates in a variety of higher cognitive functions. The concept of
working memory is now widely used to understand prefrontal functions. Neurophysiological …

The hippocampal formation has been implicated in a growing number of disorders, from
Alzheimer's disease and cognitive ageing to schizophrenia and depression. How can the …

The ability of gut microbiota to communicate with the brain and thus modulate behavior is
emerging as an exciting concept in health and disease. The enteric microbiota interacts with …

Finding one's way around an environment and remembering the events that occur within it
are crucial cognitive abilities that have been linked to the hippocampus and medial temporal …

▪ Abstract The medial temporal lobe includes a system of anatomically related structures that
are essential for declarative memory (conscious memory for facts and events). The system …

The ability to recognize a previously experienced stimulus is supported by two processes:
recollection of the stimulus in the context of other information associated with the …

Abstract Lynch, MA. Long-Term Potentiation and Memory. Physiol Rev 84: 87–136, 2004;
10.1152/physrev. 00014.2003.—One of the most significant challenges in neuroscience is to …

Recent neurobiological studies have begun to reveal the cognitive and neural coding
mechanisms that underlie declarative memory—our ability to recollect everyday events and …

A major goal of memory research is to understand how cognitive processes in memory are
supported at the level of brain systems and network representations. Especially promising in …

The hippocampus serves a critical role in declarative memory—our capacity to recall
everyday facts and events. Recent studies using functional brain imaging in humans and …