Submitted on December 29, 2008
Revised on February 27, 2009
Accepted on February 27, 2009
Hippocampal Neural Assemblies and Conscious Remembering
Prasad R Shirvalkar1*
1 Mount Sinai Medical Center
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: prasad.shirvalkar{at}mssm.edu.
The hippocampal formation (HPC) is needed to encode episodic memories, which may be consciously recalled at some future time. This review examines recent advances in understanding recollection in the context of spatiotemporally organized relational memory coding, and discusses predictions and challenges for future research on conscious remembering.
