Computational Experiments Support a Competitive Function in the CA3 Region of the Hippocampus

摘要

The comprehension of activities and functions of complex brain structures re- quires, among other things, information on simultaneous activities in several re- gions. Results reported in the literature using multi (micro/macro) electrode record- ings or imaging techniques provide incomplete information due either to the small size and/or small number of investigated regions or to the poor spatiotemporal resolution, respectively. This is particularly true for the hippocampus and its subfields, and mathematical modeling and computer simulation have been used with the aim of obtaining information when this is lacking.