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Daniel Bendor1, Hugo J Spiers1
1Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|February 3, 2016
Abstract:
Decades of research have established two central roles of the hippocampus--memory consolidation and spatial navigation. Recently, a third function of the hippocampus has been proposed: simulating future events. However, claims that the neural patterns underlying simulation occur without prior experience have come under fire in light of newly published data.

