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Cell Press, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3(20), p. 167-169
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.01.003
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Does the Hippocampus Map Out the Future?
Journal article published in 2016 by
Daniel Bendor,
Hugo J. Spiers 
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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.