It is postulated that one main function of the cerebral fornices during a mammal's behavior-formative period is to signal, from CA3, decisions on species-typical acts (such as run, freeze, climb, swim) within gross modes of behavior (such as flee, mate, hunt, eat) already determined by the core of the reticular formation. The gross mode is signalled over temporo-ammonic paths into distal apical dendrites of CA3 pyramids. CA3 responds to (all-modality) sensory input patterns to its pyramids' proximal apical dendrites, received over the mossy fiber system after the sensa have been habituation-filtered through the fascia dentata. By means of septo-fornical reinforcement signals, CA3 innate responses are sharpened, functionally and anatomically, from diffuse patterns which originally involved most of CA3′s neural circuitry. This releases most of CA3′s circuitry for conditioned learning of part-novel response patterns.Various functional interpretations of CA3′s anatomy, for innate-response sharpening and condi...
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