Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0PLOS Biology
Understanding the role of the hippocampus in representing multimodal stimuli
- 1Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
Abstract
Although experiences are multimodal, much of the work on the hippocampus has focused on visual stimuli. A new study in PLOS Biology presented unimodal and audiovisual stimuli and found evidence for hippocampal involvement in representing both.
Although experiences are multimodal, much of the work on the hippocampus has focused on visual stimuli. This Primer explores a new study in PLOS Biology that presented unimodal and audiovisual stimuli and found evidence for hippocampal involvement in representing both.
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BibTeX
@article{dimsdalezucker2026understanding,
title = {{Understanding the role of the hippocampus in representing multimodal stimuli}},
author = {Halle R. Dimsdale-Zucker},
journal = {PLOS Biology},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.3004058},
url = {https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3004058},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Understanding the role of the hippocampus in representing multimodal stimuli
AU - Halle R. Dimsdale-Zucker
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/04
JO - PLOS Biology
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3004058
UR - https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3004058
AB - Although experiences are multimodal, much of the work on the hippocampus has focused on visual stimuli. A new study in PLOS Biology presented unimodal and audiovisual stimuli and found evidence for hippocampal involvement in representing both. Although experiences are multimodal, much of the work on the hippocampus has focused on visual stimuli. This Primer explores a new study in PLOS Biology that presented unimodal and audiovisual stimuli and found evidence for hippocampal involvement in representing both.
SN - 1545-7885
SN - 1544-9173
ER -