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Distinct pattern separation related transfer functions in human CA3/dentate and CA1 revealed using high-resolution fMRI and variable mnemonic similarity. Learn Mem 2011 Jan;18(1):15-8

Date

12/18/2010

Pubmed ID

21164173

Pubmed Central ID

PMC3023966

DOI

10.1101/lm.1971111

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-78650994901 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   265 Citations

Abstract

Producing and maintaining distinct (orthogonal) neural representations for similar events is critical to avoiding interference in long-term memory. Recently, our laboratory provided the first evidence for separation-like signals in the human CA3/dentate. Here, we extended this by parametrically varying the change in input (similarity) while monitoring CA1 and CA3/dentate for separation and completion-like signals using high-resolution fMRI. In the CA1, activity varied in a graded fashion in response to increases in the change in input. In contrast, the CA3/dentate showed a stepwise transfer function that was highly sensitive to small changes in input.

Author List

Lacy JW, Yassa MA, Stark SM, Muftuler LT, Stark CE

Author

Lutfi Tugan Muftuler PhD Professor in the Neurosurgery department at Medical College of Wisconsin




MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Analysis of Variance
Brain Mapping
CA1 Region, Hippocampal
CA3 Region, Hippocampal
Dentate Gyrus
Hippocampus
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Memory
Oxygen
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Photic Stimulation
Reaction Time