Hippocampus Special Issue on Computational Models of Memory

[Mark A. Gluck]

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE OF HIPPOCAMPUS ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELS:

Now available for purchase as a single-issue from Wiley-Liss publishers
(see below for ordering information):


           Computational Models of Hippocampal Function in Memory

              A Special Issue of Hippocampus (V.6, No.6, 1996)
          Guest Edited by: Mark A. Gluck (Rutgers-Newark Neuroscience)


PRECIS:

 This special issue of Hippocampus focuses on computational network
models of hippocampal function, especially those that make substantive
contact with data from behavioral studies of learning and memory.
It provides the non-specialist reader with a general understanding of the
aims, accomplishments and limitations of computational approaches to
understanding hippocampal function.  The articles in this issue are
written so as to  facilitate the comparison between different computational
models, and to assist the non-mathematically inclined reader in understanding
how and where these models can be used as tools for understanding and
motivating empirical research, including physiological, anatomical, and
behavioral studies. The articles included focus on describing the spirit
and behavior of computational models, omitting most details on their
exact mathematical underpinnings.

CONTENTS:


INTRODUCTION

page 565
Mark A. Gluck
        Computational Models of Hippocampal Function in Memory

CIRCUIT-LEVEL MODELS

page 567
Richard Granger, Sherman P. Wiebe, Makoto Taketani, and Gary Lynch
        Distinct Memory Circuits Composing the Hippocampal Region

page 579
William B. Levy
        A Sequence Predicting CA3 Is a Flexible Associator That Learns and Uses
        Context to Solve Hippocampal-Like Tasks

page 591
Jim-Shih Liaw and Theodore W. Berger
        Dynamic Synapse: A New Concept of Neural Representation and Computation

page 601
Edmund T. Rolls
        A Theory of Hippocampal Function in Memory


CONDITIONING AND ANIMAL LEARNING

page 621
Catalin V. Buhusi and Nestor A. Schmajuk
        Attention, Configuration, and Hippocampal Function

page 643
Mark A. Gluck and Catherine E. Meyers
        Integrating Behavioral and Physiological Models of Hippocampal Function


EPISODIC MEMORY AND CONSOLIDATION

page 654
James L. McClelland and Nigel H. Goddard
        Considerations Arising From a Complementary Learning Systems
Perspective
        on Hippocampus and Neocortex

page 666
Alessandro Treves, William E. Skaggs, and Carol A. Barnes
        How Much of the Hippocampus Can Be Explained by Functional Constraints?

page 675
Jaap M.J. Murre
        TraceLink: A Model of Amnesia and Consolidation of Memory

page 685
Bin Shen and Bruce L. McNaughton
        Modeling the Spontaneous Reactivation of Experience-Specific
Hippocampal
        Cell Assembles During Sleep

page 693
Michael E. Hasselmo, Bradley P. Wyble, and Gene V. Wallenstein
        Encoding and Retrieval of Episodic Memories: Role of Cholinergic and
        GABAergic Modulation in the Hippocampus


SPATIAL NAVIGATION

page 709
Robert U. Muller and Matt Stead
        Hippocampal Place Cells Connected by Hebbian Synapses Can Solve Spatial
        Problems

page 720
Patricia E. Sharp, Hugh T. Blair, and Michael Brown
        Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampal Formation Spatial
Signals and
        Their Possible Role in Navigation: A Modular Approach

page 735
Michael Recce and Kenneth D. Harris
        Memory for Places: A Navigational Model in Support of Marr's Theory of
        Hippocampal Function

page 749
Neil Burgess and John O'Keefe
        Neuronal Computations Underlying the Firing of Place Cells and
Their Role in
        Navigation

page 763
Index for Volume 6



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     John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Dr. Mark A. Gluck,
    Associate Professor
Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers University
197 University Ave.
Newark, New Jersey  07102

          Phone:  (201) 648-1080 (Ext. 3221)
            Fax:  (201) 648-1272
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          Email:  gluck at pavlov.rutgers.edu
   WWW Homepage:  www.gluck.edu
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