Dissertação de Mestrado em Biologia Celular e Molecular apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia(FULL VERSION IN THESIS) In our daily lives, we are confronted with the need to acquire new information, maintain it in memory for a short period, retrieve it when need it, and forget it once no longer needed. The neural mechanisms underlying this form of memory, named working memory (WM) remain unknown, but are hypothesized to depend on complex, fined tuned interactions between different brain regions, namely, the hippocampus (HIPP) and anterior cingulate cortex (CG). A classical paradigm to study WM in rodent is the delayed non-matching to sample (DNMS), where animals are rewarded for performing one “sample” action (a trajectory on a ma...