Hippocampal formation, as a part of cerebral archicortex, is, said to be the site of “engrams” from studies on leison and stimulating experiment.
In this paper, a dynamic neural model of hippocampal CA 3-dentate area, which accounts for its physiological properties, has been developed to study hippocampal memory function. This model consists of several granule cells, pyramidal cells and basket cells, and it represents potential conduction within each cell. For this modeling two hypotheses are proposed ; (i) potentiate time constant at dendritic initial segment decreases temporarily according to potentiation in this segment, (ii) synaptic conductivity is reinforced or weakened according to the principle of effective or ineffective use of the synapse.
Computer simulation of physiological experiments supports these two hypotheses for “frequency potentiation” and “long lasting potentiation”, which are neural plasticity characteristically found in hippocampus.
When a spatial pattern with Poisson pulse is put in through the perforant path, the output pattern is determined by decrease of initial segment time constant and lateral inhibition by basket cells. This is the spatial pattern of pulse output from cells whose input frequency is maximum within inhibition area of a basket cell. After a few patterns are put in repeatedly and if an imperfect pattern of one of the previous pattern is put in, the output pattern becomes that of previous one. This means that the hippocampal model has an associative memory function, which is accomplished by synaptic conductivity change similar to correlation matrix memory models. From this result, hippocampus is considered to be a memory device for entorhinal area.
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