Dissociation of hippocampal and entorhinal function in associative learning: A computational approach

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Abstract

Unsupervised stimulus-stimulus redundancy compression, one component of Gluck and Myers’s (1993) representational theory of the hippocampal-region function, could emerge from the anatomy and physiology of the entorhinal cortex. This hypothesis is suggested by a physiologically and anatomically realistic model of the entorhinal cortex derived from a similar model of the olfactory cortex previously proposed by Ambros-Ingerson, Granger, and Lynch (1990). To the extent that entorhinal function can survive damage strictly limited to the hippocampal formation (the H lesion), this has implications for interpreting the behavioral consequences of lesions which either do or do not spare overlying cortical areas. In particular, we expect that the H lesion should not interrupt stimulus-stimulus redundancy compression, thereby sparing conditioning behaviors, such as latent inhibition, which are eliminated by broader (H++) lesions to the hippocampal region. However, such other behaviors as the context sensitivity of latent inhibition and of learned responses are expected to be affected by the H lesion. These predictions are consistent with empirical data. The theory also leads to several novel predictions for behavioral comparisons of intact, H-lesioned, and H++-lesioned animals on tasks such as sensory preconditioning, compound preconditioning, and easy-hard transfer. A major theme of this paper is to illustrate how a bottom-up model of cortical processing can be integrated with a top-down model of hippocampal-region function to yield a more complete mapping from physiology to behavior. © 1995, Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.

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Myers, C. E., Gluck, M. A., & Granger, R. (1995). Dissociation of hippocampal and entorhinal function in associative learning: A computational approach. Psychobiology, 23(2), 116–138. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327068

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