string: This area, with dense connections to the hippocampal region, has been linked to memory consolidation in a number of studies (Bontempi et al., 1999; Frankland and Bontempi, 2005; Nieuwenhuis and Takashima,
  2011; see also Goshen et al., 2011; Lesburguères et al., 2011; Tse et al., 2011).