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Insights into hippocampal network function

A new study proposes a full-scale model of the entorhinal cortex–dentate gyrus–CA3 network, providing a conceptual overview of the computational properties of this brain network, to show that it is an efficient pattern separator.

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Fig. 1: Pattern separation and pattern completion in the hippocampal network.

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Aertsen, A. Insights into hippocampal network function. Nat Comput Sci 1, 782–783 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-021-00159-z

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