Functional plasticity and electrophysiology of hippocampus-dependent memories

Memory formation can be divided into three fundamental sub-processes: Acquisition refers to the uptake of (new) information during learning and its encoding into a vulnerable memory trace. Subsequent consolidation stabilizes the newly encoded memory. Retrieval refers to the recall of stored memories. According to the standard model of long-term memory consolidation certain features of the memories newly encoded in neocortical neuronal networks are bound together and initially stored by fast learning regions of the temporal lobe, mainly the hippocampus. Hippocampus-dependent declarative memories have been found t…