A New Model for Systems Consolidation of Memory (IMAGE)

RIKEN

A New Model for Systems Consolidation of Memory

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Schematic model showing how memory is consolidated in the prefrontal cortex and how circuitry through the amygdala shifts as hippocampal engram cells become silent and cortical engrams become active.

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