Neuronal codes for visual perception and memory

作者：Quiroga Rodrigo Quian^*

来源：Neuropsychologia, 2016, 83: 227-241.

DOI：10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.12.016

• Perception
• Memory
• Concept cells
• Neuronal coding
• Memory models

In this review, I describe and contrast the representation of stimuli in visual cortical areas and in the medial temporal lobe (MTL). While cortex is characterized by a distributed and implicit coding that is optimal for recognition and storage of semantic information, the MTL shows a much sparser and explicit coding of specific concepts that is ideal for episodic memory. I will describe the main characteristics of the coding in the MTL by the so-called concept cells and will then propose a model of the formation and recall of episodic memory based on partially overlapping assemblies.

• 出版日期2016-3