Some argue that hippocampus supports declarative memory, our capacity to recall facts and
events, whereas others view the hippocampus as part of a system dedicated to calculating�…

More than 50 years of research have led to the general agreement that the hippocampus
contributes to memory, but there has been a major schism among theories of hippocampal�…

In recent years, the field has reached an impasse between models suggesting that the
hippocampus is fundamentally involved in spatial processing and models suggesting that�…

The quintessential memory system in the human brain—the hippocampus and surrounding
medial temporal lobe—is often treated as a module for the formation of conscious, or�…

Rodent navigation is a unique domain for studying information processing in the brain
because there is a vast literature of experimental results at many levels of description�…

We currently lack a unified and mechanistic account of how the hippocampus supports a
range of disparate cognitive functions that includes episodic memory, imagining the future�…

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Current interpretations of hippocampal memory function are blind to the fact that viewing
behaviors are pervasive and complicate the relationships among perception, behavior�…

Increasing evidence suggests that the human hippocampus contributes to a range of
different behaviors, including episodic memory, language, short‐term memory, and�…

A critical aspect of inferential reasoning is the ability to form relationships between items or
events that were not experienced together. This review considers different perspectives on�…