Accepted manuscripts are peer-reviewed but have not been through the copyediting, formatting, or proofreading process. Copyright © 2017 the authors This Accepted Manuscript has not been copyedited and formatted. The final version may differ from this version. Research Articles: Behavioral/Cognitive Functional connectivity of multiple brain regions required for the consolidation of social recognition memory Toshiyuki Tanimizu 1 , Justin W. Kenney 2 , Emiko Okano 1 , Kazune Kadoma 1 , Paul W. Frankland 2 and Satoshi Kida 1,3 1 Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Applied Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan 2 Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada 3 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3451-16.2017 Received: 3 November 2016 Revised: 18 January 2017 Accepted: 13 February 2017 Published: 14 March 2017 Author contributions: T.T., J.W.K., E.O., and K.K. performed research; T.T., J.W.K., E.O., K.K., P.W.F., and S.K. analyzed data; T.T., J.W.K., P.W.F., and S.K. wrote the paper; S.K. designed research. Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. We thank H. Fukushima for their technical assistant. SK was supported by Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research (A) (15H02488), Scientific Research (B) (23300120 and 20380078), and Challenging Exploratory Research (24650172 and 26640014), Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research on Priority Areas - Molecular Brain Science- (18022038 and 22022039), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area) (24116008, 24116001, and 23115716), Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan, The Sumitomo Foundation, Japan, The Naito Foundation, The Uehara memorial foundation and the Takeda Science Foundation, Japan. JWK was supported by the Human Frontiers Science Program (LT000759/2014). Correspondence should be addressed to Satoshi Kida, Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Applied Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1-1-1 Sakuragaoka, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 156-8502. E-mail: [email protected] Cite as: J. Neurosci ; 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3451-16.2017 Alerts: Sign up at www.jneurosci.org/cgi/alerts to receive customized email alerts when the fully formatted version of this article is published.