Cosyne 2007 Workshops
February 26-27, 2007
The Canyons, Utah
Joe Manns, Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University
The role of context in memory for the order of items
The hippocampus is thought to contribute to episodic memory in part by binding stimuli to their spatiotemporal context. The present study examined the influence of contextual cues on CA1 hippocampal activity as rats performed a task in which they were required to remember the order of trial-unique sequences of odors. The results suggested that successful episodic memory for the order of events resulted when odors that occurred close in time were bound by representations of overlapping contextual cues.
