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pattern separation

In the hippocampus, the process by which similar representations are stored separately from each other without overlap, a kind of disambiguation of similar memory traces, to avoid interference phenomena.

memory separation

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• Amer, T., & Davachi, L. (2023). Extra-hippocampal contributions to pattern separation. ELife, 12, e82250. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.82250
[Study type: literature review / Access: open]
• Liu, K. Y., Gould, R. L., Coulson, M. C., Ward, E. V., & Howard, R. J. (2016). Tests of pattern separation and pattern completion in humans—A systematic review. Hippocampus, 26(6), 705–717. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22561
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
• Quiroga, R. Q. (2020). No pattern separation in the human hippocampus. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(12), 994-1007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.09.012
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
• Rolls, E. T. (2013). The mechanisms for pattern completion and pattern separation in the hippocampus. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2013.00074.
[Study type: literature review / Access: open]
• Yassa, M. A., & Stark, C. E. L. (2011). Pattern separation in the hippocampus. Trends in Neurosciences, 34(10), 515-525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2011.06.006
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

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Frank Arnould

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mnemonic similarity task

séparation de pattern

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-JJJRFDFC-S

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