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My favorite molecular mechanisms paper

https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-02...

In terms of NCC of memory, the papers beginning around the mid 2000s are seismic. The encoding and retrieval are subtly varied depending on the lab.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17425535/

Also the cohort studies are immensely helpful, dementia, Down's syndrome let us see the impairment.

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Thank you very much, this is exactly the starting point I needed. I'll keep following the citations trail into more recent years, but your second link from 2007 reinforces my feeling that we're still very far from understanding the mechanisms:

> Second, within LIPC, we found a gradient in which a more dorsal-posterior region was involved in SR, a mid region was involved in both SR and EE, and a more ventral-anterior region was involved in EE, but only when SR was high.

To me, these are merely clues about how the high-level pieces fit together, and there's a long road to actually understanding the neural correlates of memory.

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