Maguire, EA;
Mullally, SL;
(2013)
The Hippocampus: A Manifesto for Change.
J Exp Psychol Gen
, 142
(4)
pp. 1180-1189.
10.1037/a0033650.
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Abstract
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, and spatial navigation. Here, we argue that in order to leverage this long-standing issue, traditional notions regarding the architecture of memory should be eschewed. Instead, we invoke the idea that scenes are central to hippocampal information processing. This view is motivated by mounting evidence that the hippocampus is constantly constructing spatially coherent scenes, automatically anticipating and synthesizing representations of the world beyond the immediate sensorium. By characterizing the precise relationship between scenes and the hippocampus, we believe a theoretically enriched understanding of its fundamental role and its breakdown in pathology can emerge. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Hippocampus: A Manifesto for Change. |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1037/a0033650 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0033650 |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. Copyright for this article is retained by the authors. The authors grant the American Psychological Association the exclusive right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. |
| Keywords: | amnesia; episodic memory; hippocampus; scene construction; space; cognitive functions; hippocampal information processing; breakdown in pathology; |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1405086 |
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