“…These unitized representations may both influence, and be influenced by, hippocampal patterns characterized by a yet stronger form of invariance, expressed in allocentric and conceptual representations (Buzsáki & Moser, 2013;O'Keefe & Dostrovsky, 1971;Pennatz, 2015;Quiroga, 2012). We stress that these two computational hypotheses are not mutually exclusive and that PER may harbor additional computational functions, such as novelty filtering (Haltsonen, Jalanko, Bry, & Kohonen, 1978). Returning to the "gating" function of the PER, both computational paradigms allow to hypothesize that unitized representations, stored as such in the PER and its closely connected structures, may be evoked and reinstated when sufficient bottom-up sensory evidence is presented through lowerlevel cortical areas to allow completion of the unitized pattern, which then acts as a prerequisite for further transmission into the hippocampal system.…”