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Chu T, Ji Z, Zuo J, Mi Y, Zhang WH, Huang T, Bush D, Burgess N, Wu S. Firing rate adaptation affords place cell theta sweeps, phase precession, and procession. eLife 2024; 12:RP87055. [PMID: 39037765 DOI: 10.7554/elife.87055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/23/2024] Open
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Hippocampal place cells in freely moving rodents display both theta phase precession and procession, which is thought to play important roles in cognition, but the neural mechanism for producing theta phase shift remains largely unknown. Here, we show that firing rate adaptation within a continuous attractor neural network causes the neural activity bump to oscillate around the external input, resembling theta sweeps of decoded position during locomotion. These forward and backward sweeps naturally account for theta phase precession and procession of individual neurons, respectively. By tuning the adaptation strength, our model explains the difference between 'bimodal cells' showing interleaved phase precession and procession, and 'unimodal cells' in which phase precession predominates. Our model also explains the constant cycling of theta sweeps along different arms in a T-maze environment, the speed modulation of place cells' firing frequency, and the continued phase shift after transient silencing of the hippocampus. We hope that this study will aid an understanding of the neural mechanism supporting theta phase coding in the brain.
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- Tianhao Chu
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Center of Quantitative Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Center of Quantitative Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Center of Quantitative Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, O'Donnell Brain Institute, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States
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- School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Center of Quantitative Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Brietzke SC, Barbarossa K, Meyer ML. Get out of my head: social evaluative brain states carry over into post-feedback rest and influence remembering how others view us. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae280. [PMID: 39010819 PMCID: PMC11250231 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Revised: 06/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/23/2024] [Indexed: 07/17/2024] Open
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Learning how others perceive us helps us tune our behavior to form adaptive relationships. But which perceptions stick with us? And when in the learning process are they codified in memory? We leveraged a popular television series-The Office-to answer these questions. Prior to their functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) session, viewers of The Office reported which characters they identified with, as well as which characters they perceived another person (i.e. counterpart) was similar to. During their fMRI scan, participants found out which characters other people thought they and the counterpart were like, and also completed rest scans. Participants remembered more feedback inconsistent with their self-views (vs. views of the counterpart). Although neural activity while encoding self-inconsistent feedback did not meaningfully predict memory, returning to the inconsistent self feedback during subsequent rest did. During rest, participants reinstated neural patterns engaged while receiving self-inconsistent feedback in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC). DMPFC reinstatement also quadratically predicted self-inconsistent memory, with too few or too many reinstatements compromising memory performance. Processing social feedback during rest may impact how we remember and integrate the feedback, especially when it contradicts our self-views.
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- Sasha C Brietzke
- Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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Berres S, Erdfelder E, Kuhlmann BG. Does sleep benefit source memory? Investigating 12-h retention intervals with a multinomial modeling approach. Mem Cognit 2024:10.3758/s13421-024-01579-8. [PMID: 38831160 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-024-01579-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024]
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For retention intervals of up to 12 h, the active systems consolidation hypothesis predicts that sleep compared to wakefulness strengthens the context binding of memories previously established during encoding. Sleep should thus improve source memory. By comparing retention intervals filled with natural night sleep versus daytime wakefulness, we tested this prediction in two online source-monitoring experiments using intentionally learned pictures as items and incidentally learned screen positions and frame colors as source dimensions. In Experiment 1, we examined source memory by varying the spatial position of pictures on the computer screen. Multinomial modeling analyses revealed a significant sleep benefit in source memory. In Experiment 2, we manipulated both the spatial position and the frame color of pictures orthogonally to investigate source memory for two different source dimensions at the same time, also allowing exploration of bound memory for both source dimensions. The sleep benefit on spatial source memory replicated. In contrast, no source memory sleep benefit was observed for either frame color or bound memory of both source dimensions, probably as a consequence of a floor effect in incidental encoding of color associations. In sum, the results of both experiments show that sleep within a 12-h retention interval improves source memory for spatial positions, supporting the prediction of the active systems consolidation hypothesis. However, additional research is required to clarify the impact of sleep on source memory for other context features and bound memories of multiple source dimensions.
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- Sabrina Berres
- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, L13, 15-17, Room 425, 68161, Mannheim, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, L13, 15-17, Room 425, 68161, Mannheim, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, L13, 15-17, Room 425, 68161, Mannheim, Germany.
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Chen HT, van der Meer MAA. Paradoxical replay can protect contextual task representations from destructive interference when experience is unbalanced. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.09.593332. [PMID: 38766204 PMCID: PMC11100794 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.09.593332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2024]
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Experience replay is a powerful mechanism to learn efficiently from limited experience. Despite several decades of compelling experimental results, the factors that determine which experiences are selected for replay remain unclear. A particular challenge for current theories is that on tasks that feature unbalanced experience, rats paradoxically replay the less-experienced trajectory. To understand why, we simulated a feedforward neural network with two regimes: rich learning (structured representations tailored to task demands) and lazy learning (unstructured, task-agnostic representations). Rich, but not lazy, representations degraded following unbalanced experience, an effect that could be reversed with paradoxical replay. To test if this computational principle can account for the experimental data, we examined the relationship between paradoxical replay and learned task representations in the rat hippocampus. Strikingly, we found a strong association between the richness of learned task representations and the paradoxicality of replay. Taken together, these results suggest that paradoxical replay specifically serves to protect rich representations from the destructive effects of unbalanced experience, and more generally demonstrate a novel interaction between the nature of task representations and the function of replay in artificial and biological systems.
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- Hung-Tu Chen
- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
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Luo W, Liu B, Tang Y, Huang J, Wu J. Rest to Promote Learning: A Brain Default Mode Network Perspective. Behav Sci (Basel) 2024; 14:349. [PMID: 38667145 PMCID: PMC11047624 DOI: 10.3390/bs14040349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2024] [Revised: 04/13/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 04/29/2024] Open
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The brain often switches freely between focused attention and divergent thinking, and the Default Mode Network (DMN) is activated during brain rest. Since its discovery, the DMN, together with its function and characteristics, indicates that learning does not stop when the brain "rests". Therefore, DMN plays an important role in learning. Neural activities such as beta wave rhythm regulation, "subconscious" divergence thinking mode initiation, hippocampal function, and neural replay occur during default mode, all of which explains that "rest" promotes learning. This paper summarized the function and neural mechanism of DMN in learning and proposed that the DMN plays an essential role in learning, which is that it enables rest to promote learning.
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- Wei Luo
- Department of Applied Psychology, School of Education Sciences, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530299, China; (W.L.); (Y.T.)
- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Guangxi Education Modernization and Quality Monitoring Research Center, Nanning 530001, China
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- School of Foreign Languages, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530100, China;
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- Department of Applied Psychology, School of Education Sciences, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530299, China; (W.L.); (Y.T.)
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- Department of Science Research, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China;
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- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Paller KA. Recurring memory reactivation: The offline component of learning. Neuropsychologia 2024; 196:108840. [PMID: 38417546 PMCID: PMC10981210 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 02/25/2024] [Indexed: 03/01/2024]
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One can be aware of the effort needed to memorize a new fact or to recall the name of a new acquaintance. Because of experiences like this, learning can seem to have only two components, encoding information and, after some delay, retrieving information. To the contrary, learning entails additional, intervening steps that sometimes are hidden from the learner. For firmly acquiring fact and event knowledge in particular, learners are generally not cognizant of the necessity of offline consolidation. The memories that persist to be available reliably at a later time, according to the present conceptualization, are the ones we repeatedly rehearse and integrate with other knowledge, whether we do this intentionally or unknowingly, awake or asleep. This article examines the notion that learning is not a function of waking brain activity alone. What happens in the brain while we sleep also impacts memory storage, and consequently is a critical component of learning. The idea that memories can change over time and become enduring has long been present in memory research and is foundational for the concept of memory consolidation. Nevertheless, the notion that memory consolidation happens during sleep faced much resistance before eventually being firmly established. Research is still needed to elucidate the operation and repercussions of repeated reactivation during sleep. Comprehensively understanding how offline memory reactivation contributes to learning is vital for both theoretical and practical considerations.
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- Ken A Paller
- Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
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Lopez MR, Wasberg SMH, Gagliardi CM, Normandin ME, Muzzio IA. Mystery of the memory engram: History, current knowledge, and unanswered questions. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 159:105574. [PMID: 38331127 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Revised: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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The quest to understand the memory engram has intrigued humans for centuries. Recent technological advances, including genetic labelling, imaging, optogenetic and chemogenetic techniques, have propelled the field of memory research forward. These tools have enabled researchers to create and erase memory components. While these innovative techniques have yielded invaluable insights, they often focus on specific elements of the memory trace. Genetic labelling may rely on a particular immediate early gene as a marker of activity, optogenetics may activate or inhibit one specific type of neuron, and imaging may capture activity snapshots in a given brain region at specific times. Yet, memories are multifaceted, involving diverse arrays of neuronal subpopulations, circuits, and regions that work in concert to create, store, and retrieve information. Consideration of contributions of both excitatory and inhibitory neurons, micro and macro circuits across brain regions, the dynamic nature of active ensembles, and representational drift is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the complex nature of memory.
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- M R Lopez
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, United States
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
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McNamee DC. The generative neural microdynamics of cognitive processing. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2024; 85:102855. [PMID: 38428170 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2024.102855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024]
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The entorhinal cortex and hippocampus form a recurrent network that informs many cognitive processes, including memory, planning, navigation, and imagination. Neural recordings from these regions reveal spatially organized population codes corresponding to external environments and abstract spaces. Aligning the former cognitive functionalities with the latter neural phenomena is a central challenge in understanding the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit (EHC). Disparate experiments demonstrate a surprising level of complexity and apparent disorder in the intricate spatiotemporal dynamics of sequential non-local hippocampal reactivations, which occur particularly, though not exclusively, during immobile pauses and rest. We review these phenomena with a particular focus on their apparent lack of physical simulative realism. These observations are then integrated within a theoretical framework and proposed neural circuit mechanisms that normatively characterize this neural complexity by conceiving different regimes of hippocampal microdynamics as neuromarkers of diverse cognitive computations.
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Kopsick JD, Kilgore JA, Adam GC, Ascoli GA. Formation and Retrieval of Cell Assemblies in a Biologically Realistic Spiking Neural Network Model of Area CA3 in the Mouse Hippocampus. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.27.586909. [PMID: 38585941 PMCID: PMC10996657 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.27.586909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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The hippocampal formation is critical for episodic memory, with area Cornu Ammonis 3 (CA3) a necessary substrate for auto-associative pattern completion. Recent theoretical and experimental evidence suggests that the formation and retrieval of cell assemblies enable these functions. Yet, how cell assemblies are formed and retrieved in a full-scale spiking neural network (SNN) of CA3 that incorporates the observed diversity of neurons and connections within this circuit is not well understood. Here, we demonstrate that a data-driven SNN model quantitatively reflecting the neuron type-specific population sizes, intrinsic electrophysiology, connectivity statistics, synaptic signaling, and long-term plasticity of the mouse CA3 is capable of robust auto-association and pattern completion via cell assemblies. Our results show that a broad range of assembly sizes could successfully and systematically retrieve patterns from heavily incomplete or corrupted cues after a limited number of presentations. Furthermore, performance was robust with respect to partial overlap of assemblies through shared cells, substantially enhancing memory capacity. These novel findings provide computational evidence that the specific biological properties of the CA3 circuit produce an effective neural substrate for associative learning in the mammalian brain.
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- Jeffrey D. Kopsick
- Center for Neural Informatics, Structures, & Plasticity, College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
- Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, College of Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States
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- Center for Neural Informatics, Structures, & Plasticity, College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
- Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, College of Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
- Bioengineering Department, College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
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Krasne FB, Fanselow MS. Remote memory in a Bayesian model of context fear conditioning (BaconREM). Front Behav Neurosci 2024; 17:1295969. [PMID: 38515786 PMCID: PMC10955142 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1295969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
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Here, we propose a model of remote memory (BaconREM), which is an extension of a previously published Bayesian model of context fear learning (BACON) that accounts for many aspects of recently learned context fear. BaconREM simulates most known phenomenology of remote context fear as studied in rodents and makes new predictions. In particular, it predicts the well-known observation that fear that was conditioned to a recently encoded context becomes hippocampus-independent and shows much-enhanced generalization ("hyper-generalization") when systems consolidation occurs (i.e., when memory becomes remote). However, the model also predicts that there should be circumstances under which the generalizability of remote fear may not increase or even decrease. It also predicts the established finding that a "reminder" exposure to a feared context can abolish hyper-generalization while at the same time making remote fear again hippocampus-dependent. This observation has in the past been taken to suggest that reminders facilitate access to detail memory that remains permanently in the hippocampus even after systems consolidation is complete. However, the present model simulates this result even though it totally moves all the contextual memory that it retains to the neo-cortex when context fear becomes remote.
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- Franklin B. Krasne
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Navas-Olive A, Rubio A, Abbaspoor S, Hoffman KL, de la Prida LM. A machine learning toolbox for the analysis of sharp-wave ripples reveals common waveform features across species. Commun Biol 2024; 7:211. [PMID: 38438533 PMCID: PMC10912113 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-05871-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024] Open
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The study of sharp-wave ripples has advanced our understanding of memory function, and their alteration in neurological conditions such as epilepsy is considered a biomarker of dysfunction. Sharp-wave ripples exhibit diverse waveforms and properties that cannot be fully characterized by spectral methods alone. Here, we describe a toolbox of machine-learning models for automatic detection and analysis of these events. The machine-learning architectures, which resulted from a crowdsourced hackathon, are able to capture a wealth of ripple features recorded in the dorsal hippocampus of mice across awake and sleep conditions. When applied to data from the macaque hippocampus, these models are able to generalize detection and reveal shared properties across species. We hereby provide a user-friendly open-source toolbox for model use and extension, which can help to accelerate and standardize analysis of sharp-wave ripples, lowering the threshold for its adoption in biomedical applications.
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- Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Sebastian ER, Quintanilla JP, Sánchez-Aguilera A, Esparza J, Cid E, de la Prida LM. Topological analysis of sharp-wave ripple waveforms reveals input mechanisms behind feature variations. Nat Neurosci 2023; 26:2171-2181. [PMID: 37946048 PMCID: PMC10689241 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01471-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/22/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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The reactivation of experience-based neural activity patterns in the hippocampus is crucial for learning and memory. These reactivation patterns and their associated sharp-wave ripples (SWRs) are highly variable. However, this variability is missed by commonly used spectral methods. Here, we use topological and dimensionality reduction techniques to analyze the waveform of ripples recorded at the pyramidal layer of CA1. We show that SWR waveforms distribute along a continuum in a low-dimensional space, which conveys information about the underlying layer-specific synaptic inputs. A decoder trained in this space successfully links individual ripples with their expected sinks and sources, demonstrating how physiological mechanisms shape SWR variability. Furthermore, we found that SWR waveforms segregated differently during wakefulness and sleep before and after a series of cognitive tasks, with striking effects of novelty and learning. Our results thus highlight how the topological analysis of ripple waveforms enables a deeper physiological understanding of SWRs.
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- Instituto Cajal. CSIC, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Cajal. CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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Girardeau G. [The role of sleep brain oscillations and neuronal patterns for memory]. Med Sci (Paris) 2023; 39:836-844. [PMID: 38018927 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2023160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2023] Open
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Sleep is crucial for the selective processing and strengthening of information encoded during wakefulness, known as memory consolidation. The different phases of sleep are characterized by specific neuronal activities associated with memory consolidation and homeostatic regulation. In the hippocampus during non-REM sleep, neural patterns called sharp-wave ripple complexes are associated with reactivations of the neural activity that occurred during wakefulness. These reactivations, through their coordinations with cortical slow oscillations and thalamocortical spindles, contribute to the consolidation of spatial memories by strengthening neuronal connections. Cortical slow waves are also a marker of synaptic homeostasis, a regulatory phenomenon maintaining networks in a functional range of firing rates. Finally, REM sleep is also important for memory, although the underlying physiology and the role of theta waves deserves to be further explored.
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Pronier É, Morici JF, Girardeau G. The role of the hippocampus in the consolidation of emotional memories during sleep. Trends Neurosci 2023; 46:912-925. [PMID: 37714808 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Revised: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 09/17/2023]
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Episodic memory relies on the hippocampus, a heterogeneous brain region with distinct functions. Spatial representations in the dorsal hippocampus (dHPC) are crucial for contextual memory, while the ventral hippocampus (vHPC) is more involved in emotional processing. Here, we review the literature in rodents highlighting the anatomical and functional properties of the hippocampus along its dorsoventral axis that underlie its role in contextual and emotional memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval. We propose that the coordination between the dorsal and vHPC through theta oscillations during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and through sharp-wave ripples during non-REM (NREM) sleep, might facilitate the transfer of contextual information for integration with valence-related processing in other structures of the network. Further investigation into the physiology of the vHPC and its connections with other brain areas is needed to deepen the current understanding of emotional memory consolidation during sleep.
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- Éléonore Pronier
- Institut du Fer à Moulin, Inserm U1270, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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Berndt M, Trusel M, Roberts TF, Pfeiffer BE, Volk LJ. Bidirectional synaptic changes in deep and superficial hippocampal neurons following in vivo activity. Neuron 2023; 111:2984-2994.e4. [PMID: 37689058 PMCID: PMC10958998 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2022] [Revised: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/11/2023]
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Neuronal activity during experience is thought to induce plastic changes within the hippocampal network that underlie memory formation, although the extent and details of such changes in vivo remain unclear. Here, we employed a temporally precise marker of neuronal activity, CaMPARI2, to label active CA1 hippocampal neurons in vivo, followed by immediate acute slice preparation and electrophysiological quantification of synaptic properties. Recently active neurons in the superficial sublayer of stratum pyramidale displayed larger post-synaptic responses at excitatory synapses from area CA3, with no change in pre-synaptic release probability. In contrast, in vivo activity correlated with weaker pre- and post-synaptic excitatory weights onto pyramidal cells in the deep sublayer. In vivo activity of deep and superficial neurons within sharp-wave/ripples was bidirectionally changed across experience, consistent with the observed changes in synaptic weights. These findings reveal novel, fundamental mechanisms through which the hippocampal network is modified by experience to store information.
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- Marcus Berndt
- UT Southwestern Medical Center Neuroscience Graduate Program, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; UT Southwestern Medical Center Department of Neuroscience, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center Department of Neuroscience, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center Neuroscience Graduate Program, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; UT Southwestern Medical Center Department of Neuroscience, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Peter O'Donnell Brain Institute, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center Neuroscience Graduate Program, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; UT Southwestern Medical Center Department of Neuroscience, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Peter O'Donnell Brain Institute, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center Neuroscience Graduate Program, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; UT Southwestern Medical Center Department of Neuroscience, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; UT Southwestern Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Peter O'Donnell Brain Institute, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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Milstein AD, Tran S, Ng G, Soltesz I. Offline memory replay in recurrent neuronal networks emerges from constraints on online dynamics. J Physiol 2023; 601:3241-3264. [PMID: 35907087 PMCID: PMC9885000 DOI: 10.1113/jp283216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 07/22/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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During spatial exploration, neural circuits in the hippocampus store memories of sequences of sensory events encountered in the environment. When sensory information is absent during 'offline' resting periods, brief neuronal population bursts can 'replay' sequences of activity that resemble bouts of sensory experience. These sequences can occur in either forward or reverse order, and can even include spatial trajectories that have not been experienced, but are consistent with the topology of the environment. The neural circuit mechanisms underlying this variable and flexible sequence generation are unknown. Here we demonstrate in a recurrent spiking network model of hippocampal area CA3 that experimental constraints on network dynamics such as population sparsity, stimulus selectivity, rhythmicity and spike rate adaptation, as well as associative synaptic connectivity, enable additional emergent properties, including variable offline memory replay. In an online stimulus-driven state, we observed the emergence of neuronal sequences that swept from representations of past to future stimuli on the timescale of the theta rhythm. In an offline state driven only by noise, the network generated both forward and reverse neuronal sequences, and recapitulated the experimental observation that offline memory replay events tend to include salient locations like the site of a reward. These results demonstrate that biological constraints on the dynamics of recurrent neural circuits are sufficient to enable memories of sensory events stored in the strengths of synaptic connections to be flexibly read out during rest and sleep, which is thought to be important for memory consolidation and planning of future behaviour. KEY POINTS: A recurrent spiking network model of hippocampal area CA3 was optimized to recapitulate experimentally observed network dynamics during simulated spatial exploration. During simulated offline rest, the network exhibited the emergent property of generating flexible forward, reverse and mixed direction memory replay events. Network perturbations and analysis of model diversity and degeneracy identified associative synaptic connectivity and key features of network dynamics as important for offline sequence generation. Network simulations demonstrate that population over-representation of salient positions like the site of reward results in biased memory replay.
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- Aaron D. Milstein
- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford CA
- Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford CA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford CA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford CA
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Heald JB, Wolpert DM, Lengyel M. The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning. Annu Rev Neurosci 2023; 46:233-258. [PMID: 36972611 PMCID: PMC10348919 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-092322-100402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
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Flexible behavior requires the creation, updating, and expression of memories to depend on context. While the neural underpinnings of each of these processes have been intensively studied, recent advances in computational modeling revealed a key challenge in context-dependent learning that had been largely ignored previously: Under naturalistic conditions, context is typically uncertain, necessitating contextual inference. We review a theoretical approach to formalizing context-dependent learning in the face of contextual uncertainty and the core computations it requires. We show how this approach begins to organize a large body of disparate experimental observations, from multiple levels of brain organization (including circuits, systems, and behavior) and multiple brain regions (most prominently the prefrontal cortex, the hippocampus, and motor cortices), into a coherent framework. We argue that contextual inference may also be key to understanding continual learning in the brain. This theory-driven perspective places contextual inference as a core component of learning.
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- James B Heald
- Department of Neuroscience and Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; ,
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- Department of Neuroscience and Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; ,
- Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;
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- Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;
- Center for Cognitive Computation, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
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Harvey RE, Robinson HL, Liu C, Oliva A, Fernandez-Ruiz A. Hippocampo-cortical circuits for selective memory encoding, routing, and replay. Neuron 2023; 111:2076-2090.e9. [PMID: 37196658 PMCID: PMC11146684 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2022] [Revised: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Traditionally considered a homogeneous cell type, hippocampal pyramidal cells have been recently shown to be highly diverse. However, how this cellular diversity relates to the different hippocampal network computations that support memory-guided behavior is not yet known. We show that the anatomical identity of pyramidal cells is a major organizing principle of CA1 assembly dynamics, the emergence of memory replay, and cortical projection patterns in rats. Segregated pyramidal cell subpopulations encoded trajectory and choice-specific information or tracked changes in reward configuration respectively, and their activity was selectively read out by different cortical targets. Furthermore, distinct hippocampo-cortical assemblies coordinated the reactivation of complementary memory representations. These findings reveal the existence of specialized hippocampo-cortical subcircuits and provide a cellular mechanism that supports the computational flexibility and memory capacities of these structures.
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- Ryan E Harvey
- Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Navas-Olive A, Rubio A, Abbaspoor S, Hoffman KL, de la Prida LM. A machine learning toolbox for the analysis of sharp-wave ripples reveal common features across species. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.07.02.547382. [PMID: 37461661 PMCID: PMC10349962 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.02.547382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/24/2023]
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The study of sharp-wave ripples (SWRs) has advanced our understanding of memory function, and their alteration in neurological conditions such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease is considered a biomarker of dysfunction. SWRs exhibit diverse waveforms and properties that cannot be fully characterized by spectral methods alone. Here, we describe a toolbox of machine learning (ML) models for automatic detection and analysis of SWRs. The ML architectures, which resulted from a crowdsourced hackathon, are able to capture a wealth of SWR features recorded in the dorsal hippocampus of mice. When applied to data from the macaque hippocampus, these models were able to generalize detection and revealed shared SWR properties across species. We hereby provide a user-friendly open-source toolbox for model use and extension, which can help to accelerate and standardize SWR research, lowering the threshold for its adoption in biomedical applications.
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- Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, USA
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- Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, USA
- Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, USA
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Quigley LD, Pendry R, Mendoza ML, Pfeiffer BE, Volk LJ. Experience alters hippocampal and cortical network communication via a KIBRA-dependent mechanism. Cell Rep 2023; 42:112662. [PMID: 37347662 PMCID: PMC10592482 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 06/01/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023] Open
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Synaptic plasticity is hypothesized to underlie "replay" of salient experience during hippocampal sharp-wave/ripple (SWR)-based ensemble activity and to facilitate systems-level memory consolidation coordinated by SWRs and cortical sleep spindles. It remains unclear how molecular changes at synapses contribute to experience-induced modification of network function. The synaptic protein KIBRA regulates plasticity and memory. To determine the impact of KIBRA-regulated plasticity on circuit dynamics, we recorded in vivo neural activity from wild-type (WT) mice and littermates lacking KIBRA and examined circuit function before, during, and after novel experience. In WT mice, experience altered population activity and oscillatory dynamics in a manner consistent with incorporation of new information content in replay and enhanced hippocampal-cortical communication. While baseline SWR features were normal in KIBRA conditional knockout (cKO) mice, experience-dependent alterations in SWRs were absent. Furthermore, intra-hippocampal and hippocampal-cortical communication during SWRs was disrupted following KIBRA deletion. These results indicate molecular mechanisms that underlie network-level adaptations to experience.
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- Lilyana D Quigley
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Peter O' Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Peter O' Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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Xie B, Zhen Z, Guo O, Li H, Guo M, Zhen J. Progress on the hippocampal circuits and functions based on sharp wave ripples. Brain Res Bull 2023:110695. [PMID: 37353037 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2023.110695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Revised: 06/18/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/25/2023]
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Sharp wave ripples (SWRs) are high-frequency synchronization events generated by hippocampal neuronal circuits during various forms of learning and reactivated during memory consolidation and recall. There is mounting evidence that SWRs are essential for storing spatial and social memories in rodents and short-term episodic memories in humans. Sharp wave ripples originate mainly from the hippocampal CA3 and subiculum, and can be transmitted to modulate neuronal activity in cortical and subcortical regions for long-term memory consolidation and behavioral guidance. Different hippocampal subregions have distinct functions in learning and memory. For instance, the dorsal CA1 is critical for spatial navigation, episodic memory, and learning, while the ventral CA1 and dorsal CA2 may work cooperatively to store and consolidate social memories. Here, we summarize recent studies demonstrating that SWRs are essential for the consolidation of spatial, episodic, and social memories in various hippocampal-cortical pathways, and review evidence that SWR dysregulation contributes to cognitive impairments in neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental diseases.
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- Boxu Xie
- Department of Neurology, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Neurological Laboratory of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China; Neurological Laboratory of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, China.
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Simonnet C, Sinha M, Goutierre M, Moutkine I, Daumas S, Poncer JC. Silencing KCC2 in mouse dorsal hippocampus compromises spatial and contextual memory. Neuropsychopharmacology 2023; 48:1067-1077. [PMID: 36302847 PMCID: PMC10209115 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-022-01480-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Revised: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Delayed upregulation of the neuronal chloride extruder KCC2 underlies the progressive shift in GABA signaling polarity during development. Conversely, KCC2 downregulation is observed in a variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders often associated with cognitive impairment. Reduced KCC2 expression and function in mature networks may disrupt GABA signaling and promote anomalous network activities underlying these disorders. However, the causal link between KCC2 downregulation, altered brain rhythmogenesis, and cognitive function remains elusive. Here, by combining behavioral exploration with in vivo electrophysiology we assessed the impact of chronic KCC2 downregulation in mouse dorsal hippocampus and showed it compromises both spatial and contextual memory. This was associated with altered hippocampal rhythmogenesis and neuronal hyperexcitability, with increased burst firing in CA1 neurons during non-REM sleep. Reducing neuronal excitability with terbinafine, a specific Task-3 leak potassium channel opener, occluded the impairment of contextual memory upon KCC2 knockdown. Our results establish a causal relationship between KCC2 expression and cognitive performance and suggest that non-epileptiform rhythmopathies and neuronal hyperexcitability are central to the deficits caused by KCC2 downregulation in the adult mouse brain.
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- Clémence Simonnet
- Inserm UMR-S 1270, 75005, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, 75005, Paris, France
- Institut du Fer à Moulin, 75005, Paris, France
- Basic Neuroscience Department, Centre Medical Universitaire, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Inserm UMR-S 1270, 75005, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, 75005, Paris, France
- Institut du Fer à Moulin, 75005, Paris, France
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- Inserm UMR-S 1270, 75005, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, 75005, Paris, France
- Institut du Fer à Moulin, 75005, Paris, France
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- Inserm UMR-S 1270, 75005, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, 75005, Paris, France
- Institut du Fer à Moulin, 75005, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, 75005, Paris, France
- Neuroscience Paris Seine-Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (NPS-IBPS), 75005, Paris, France
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- Inserm UMR-S 1270, 75005, Paris, France.
- Sorbonne Université, 75005, Paris, France.
- Institut du Fer à Moulin, 75005, Paris, France.
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Hahamy A, Dubossarsky H, Behrens TEJ. The human brain reactivates context-specific past information at event boundaries of naturalistic experiences. Nat Neurosci 2023:10.1038/s41593-023-01331-6. [PMID: 37248340 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01331-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Although we perceive the world in a continuous manner, our experience is partitioned into discrete events. However, to make sense of these events, they must be stitched together into an overarching narrative-a model of unfolding events. It has been proposed that such a stitching process happens in offline neural reactivations when rodents build models of spatial environments. Here we show that, while understanding a natural narrative, humans reactivate neural representations of past events. Similar to offline replay, these reactivations occur in the hippocampus and default mode network, where reactivations are selective to relevant past events. However, these reactivations occur, not during prolonged offline periods, but at the boundaries between ongoing narrative events. These results, replicated across two datasets, suggest reactivations as a candidate mechanism for binding temporally distant information into a coherent understanding of ongoing experience.
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- Avital Hahamy
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.
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- School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Language Technology Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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Vancura B, Geiller T, Grosmark A, Zhao V, Losonczy A. Inhibitory control of sharp-wave ripple duration during learning in hippocampal recurrent networks. Nat Neurosci 2023; 26:788-797. [PMID: 37081295 PMCID: PMC10209669 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01306-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023]
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Recurrent excitatory connections in hippocampal regions CA3 and CA2 are thought to play a key role in the generation of sharp-wave ripples (SWRs), electrophysiological oscillations tightly linked with learning and memory consolidation. However, it remains unknown how defined populations of inhibitory interneurons regulate these events during behavior. Here, we use large-scale, three-dimensional calcium imaging and retrospective molecular identification in the mouse hippocampus to characterize molecularly identified CA3 and CA2 interneuron activity during SWR-associated memory consolidation and spatial navigation. We describe subtype- and region-specific responses during behaviorally distinct brain states and find that SWRs are preceded by decreased cholecystokinin-expressing interneuron activity and followed by increased parvalbumin-expressing basket cell activity. The magnitude of these dynamics correlates with both SWR duration and behavior during hippocampal-dependent learning. Together these results assign subtype- and region-specific roles for inhibitory circuits in coordinating operations and learning-related plasticity in hippocampal recurrent circuits.
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- Bert Vancura
- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- University of Connecticut Medical School, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
- The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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Bono J, Zannone S, Pedrosa V, Clopath C. Learning predictive cognitive maps with spiking neurons during behavior and replays. eLife 2023; 12:e80671. [PMID: 36927625 PMCID: PMC10019888 DOI: 10.7554/elife.80671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2022] [Accepted: 01/12/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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The hippocampus has been proposed to encode environments using a representation that contains predictive information about likely future states, called the successor representation. However, it is not clear how such a representation could be learned in the hippocampal circuit. Here, we propose a plasticity rule that can learn this predictive map of the environment using a spiking neural network. We connect this biologically plausible plasticity rule to reinforcement learning, mathematically and numerically showing that it implements the TD-lambda algorithm. By spanning these different levels, we show how our framework naturally encompasses behavioral activity and replays, smoothly moving from rate to temporal coding, and allows learning over behavioral timescales with a plasticity rule acting on a timescale of milliseconds. We discuss how biological parameters such as dwelling times at states, neuronal firing rates and neuromodulation relate to the delay discounting parameter of the TD algorithm, and how they influence the learned representation. We also find that, in agreement with psychological studies and contrary to reinforcement learning theory, the discount factor decreases hyperbolically with time. Finally, our framework suggests a role for replays, in both aiding learning in novel environments and finding shortcut trajectories that were not experienced during behavior, in agreement with experimental data.
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- Jacopo Bono
- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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Vancura B, Geiller T, Losonczy A. Organization and Plasticity of Inhibition in Hippocampal Recurrent Circuits. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.03.13.532296. [PMID: 36993553 PMCID: PMC10054977 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.13.532296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Excitatory-inhibitory interactions structure recurrent network dynamics for efficient cortical computations. In the CA3 area of the hippocampus, recurrent circuit dynamics, including experience-induced plasticity at excitatory synapses, are thought to play a key role in episodic memory encoding and consolidation via rapid generation and flexible selection of neural ensembles. However, in vivo activity of identified inhibitory motifs supporting this recurrent circuitry has remained largely inaccessible, and it is unknown whether CA3 inhibition is also modifiable upon experience. Here we use large-scale, 3-dimensional calcium imaging and retrospective molecular identification in the mouse hippocampus to obtain the first comprehensive description of molecularly-identified CA3 interneuron dynamics during both spatial navigation and sharp-wave ripple (SWR)-associated memory consolidation. Our results uncover subtype-specific dynamics during behaviorally distinct brain-states. Our data also demonstrate predictive, reflective, and experience-driven plastic recruitment of specific inhibitory motifs during SWR-related memory reactivation. Together these results assign active roles for inhibitory circuits in coordinating operations and plasticity in hippocampal recurrent circuits.
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Chen ZS, Wilson MA. How our understanding of memory replay evolves. J Neurophysiol 2023; 129:552-580. [PMID: 36752404 PMCID: PMC9988534 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00454.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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Memory reactivations and replay, widely reported in the hippocampus and cortex across species, have been implicated in memory consolidation, planning, and spatial and skill learning. Technological advances in electrophysiology, calcium imaging, and human neuroimaging techniques have enabled neuroscientists to measure large-scale neural activity with increasing spatiotemporal resolution and have provided opportunities for developing robust analytic methods to identify memory replay. In this article, we first review a large body of historically important and representative memory replay studies from the animal and human literature. We then discuss our current understanding of memory replay functions in learning, planning, and memory consolidation and further discuss the progress in computational modeling that has contributed to these improvements. Next, we review past and present analytic methods for replay analyses and discuss their limitations and challenges. Finally, looking ahead, we discuss some promising analytic methods for detecting nonstereotypical, behaviorally nondecodable structures from large-scale neural recordings. We argue that seamless integration of multisite recordings, real-time replay decoding, and closed-loop manipulation experiments will be essential for delineating the role of memory replay in a wide range of cognitive and motor functions.
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- Zhe Sage Chen
- Department of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States
- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States
- Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, United States
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Gao Y. A computational model of learning flexible navigation in a maze by layout-conforming replay of place cells. Front Comput Neurosci 2023; 17:1053097. [PMID: 36846726 PMCID: PMC9947252 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2023.1053097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
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Recent experimental observations have shown that the reactivation of hippocampal place cells (PC) during sleep or wakeful immobility depicts trajectories that can go around barriers and can flexibly adapt to a changing maze layout. However, existing computational models of replay fall short of generating such layout-conforming replay, restricting their usage to simple environments, like linear tracks or open fields. In this paper, we propose a computational model that generates layout-conforming replay and explains how such replay drives the learning of flexible navigation in a maze. First, we propose a Hebbian-like rule to learn the inter-PC synaptic strength during exploration. Then we use a continuous attractor network (CAN) with feedback inhibition to model the interaction among place cells and hippocampal interneurons. The activity bump of place cells drifts along paths in the maze, which models layout-conforming replay. During replay in sleep, the synaptic strengths from place cells to striatal medium spiny neurons (MSN) are learned by a novel dopamine-modulated three-factor rule to store place-reward associations. During goal-directed navigation, the CAN periodically generates replay trajectories from the animal's location for path planning, and the trajectory leading to a maximal MSN activity is followed by the animal. We have implemented our model into a high-fidelity virtual rat in the MuJoCo physics simulator. Extensive experiments have demonstrated that its superior flexibility during navigation in a maze is due to a continuous re-learning of inter-PC and PC-MSN synaptic strength.
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- Yuanxiang Gao
- School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China,CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,*Correspondence: Yuanxiang Gao ✉
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Bang JW, Hamilton-Fletcher G, Chan KC. Visual Plasticity in Adulthood: Perspectives from Hebbian and Homeostatic Plasticity. Neuroscientist 2023; 29:117-138. [PMID: 34382456 PMCID: PMC9356772 DOI: 10.1177/10738584211037619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The visual system retains profound plastic potential in adulthood. In the current review, we summarize the evidence of preserved plasticity in the adult visual system during visual perceptual learning as well as both monocular and binocular visual deprivation. In each condition, we discuss how such evidence reflects two major cellular mechanisms of plasticity: Hebbian and homeostatic processes. We focus on how these two mechanisms work together to shape plasticity in the visual system. In addition, we discuss how these two mechanisms could be further revealed in future studies investigating cross-modal plasticity in the visual system.
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- Ji Won Bang
- Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA
- Neuroscience Institute, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA
- Center for Neural Science, College of Arts and Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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Duvelle É, Grieves RM, van der Meer MAA. Temporal context and latent state inference in the hippocampal splitter signal. eLife 2023; 12:e82357. [PMID: 36622350 PMCID: PMC9829411 DOI: 10.7554/elife.82357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 12/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The hippocampus is thought to enable the encoding and retrieval of ongoing experience, the organization of that experience into structured representations like contexts, maps, and schemas, and the use of these structures to plan for the future. A central goal is to understand what the core computations supporting these functions are, and how these computations are realized in the collective action of single neurons. A potential access point into this issue is provided by 'splitter cells', hippocampal neurons that fire differentially on the overlapping segment of trajectories that differ in their past and/or future. However, the literature on splitter cells has been fragmented and confusing, owing to differences in terminology, behavioral tasks, and analysis methods across studies. In this review, we synthesize consistent findings from this literature, establish a common set of terms, and translate between single-cell and ensemble perspectives. Most importantly, we examine the combined findings through the lens of two major theoretical ideas about hippocampal function: representation of temporal context and latent state inference. We find that unique signature properties of each of these models are necessary to account for the data, but neither theory, by itself, explains all of its features. Specifically, the temporal gradedness of the splitter signal is strong support for temporal context, but is hard to explain using state models, while its flexibility and task-dependence is naturally accounted for using state inference, but poses a challenge otherwise. These theories suggest a number of avenues for future work, and we believe their application to splitter cells is a timely and informative domain for testing and refining theoretical ideas about hippocampal function.
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- Éléonore Duvelle
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth CollegeHanoverUnited States
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth CollegeHanoverUnited States
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Mysin I, Shubina L. Hippocampal non-theta state: The "Janus face" of information processing. Front Neural Circuits 2023; 17:1134705. [PMID: 36960401 PMCID: PMC10027749 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2023.1134705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023] Open
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The vast majority of studies on hippocampal rhythms have been conducted on animals or humans in situations where their attention was focused on external stimuli or solving cognitive tasks. These studies formed the basis for the idea that rhythmical activity coordinates the work of neurons during information processing. However, at rest, when attention is not directed to external stimuli, brain rhythms do not disappear, although the parameters of oscillatory activity change. What is the functional load of rhythmical activity at rest? Hippocampal oscillatory activity during rest is called the non-theta state, as opposed to the theta state, a characteristic activity during active behavior. We dedicate our review to discussing the present state of the art in the research of the non-theta state. The key provisions of the review are as follows: (1) the non-theta state has its own characteristics of oscillatory and neuronal activity; (2) hippocampal non-theta state is possibly caused and maintained by change of rhythmicity of medial septal input under the influence of raphe nuclei; (3) there is no consensus in the literature about cognitive functions of the non-theta-non-ripple state; and (4) the antagonistic relationship between theta and delta rhythms observed in rodents is not always observed in humans. Most attention is paid to the non-theta-non-ripple state, since this aspect of hippocampal activity has not been investigated properly and discussed in reviews.
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Jackson A, Xu W. Role of cerebellum in sleep-dependent memory processes. Front Syst Neurosci 2023; 17:1154489. [PMID: 37143709 PMCID: PMC10151545 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2023.1154489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023] Open
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The activities and role of the cerebellum in sleep have, until recently, been largely ignored by both the sleep and cerebellum fields. Human sleep studies often neglect the cerebellum because it is at a position in the skull that is inaccessible to EEG electrodes. Animal neurophysiology sleep studies have focussed mainly on the neocortex, thalamus and the hippocampus. However, recent neurophysiological studies have shown that not only does the cerebellum participate in the sleep cycle, but it may also be implicated in off-line memory consolidation. Here we review the literature on cerebellar activity during sleep and the role it plays in off-line motor learning, and introduce a hypothesis whereby the cerebellum continues to compute internal models during sleep that train the neocortex.
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- Andrew Jackson
- Institute of Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Wei Xu,
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Gateway identity and spatial remapping in a combined grid and place cell attractor. Neural Netw 2023; 157:226-239. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2022.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Fukai T. Computational models of Idling brain activity for memory processing. Neurosci Res 2022; 189:75-82. [PMID: 36592825 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2022.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2022] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Studying the underlying neural mechanisms of cognitive functions of the brain is one of the central questions in modern biology. Moreover, it has significantly impacted the development of novel technologies in artificial intelligence. Spontaneous activity is a unique feature of the brain and is currently lacking in many artificially constructed intelligent machines. Spontaneous activity may represent the brain's idling states, which are internally driven by neuronal networks and possibly participate in offline processing during awake, sleep, and resting states. Evidence is accumulating that the brain's spontaneous activity is not mere noise but part of the mechanisms to process information about previous experiences. A bunch of literature has shown how previous sensory and behavioral experiences influence the subsequent patterns of brain activity with various methods in various animals. It seems, however, that the patterns of neural activity and their computational roles differ significantly from area to area and from function to function. In this article, I review the various forms of the brain's spontaneous activity, especially those observed during memory processing, and some attempts to model the generation mechanisms and computational roles of such activities.
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- Tomoki Fukai
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Tancha 1919-1, Onna-son, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan.
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He H, Guan H, McHugh TJ. The expanded circuitry of hippocampal ripples and replay. Neurosci Res 2022; 189:13-19. [PMID: 36572253 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2022.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2022] [Revised: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The place cells and well-defined oscillatory population rhythms of the rodent hippocampus have served as a powerful model system in linking cells and circuits to memory function. While the initial three decades of place cell research primarily focused on the activity of neurons during exploration, the last twenty-five years have seen growing interest in the physiology of the hippocampus at rest. During slow-wave sleep and quiet wakefulness the hippocampus exhibits sharp-wave ripples (SWRs), short high-frequency, high-amplitude oscillations, that organize the reactivation or 'replay' of sequences of place cells, and interventions that disrupt SWRs impair learning. While the canonical model of SWRs generation have emphasized CA3 input to CA1 as the source of excitatory drive, recent work suggests there are multiple circuits, including the CA2 region, that can both influence, generate and organize SWRs, both from the oscillatory and information content perspectives in a task and state-dependent manner. This extended circuitry and its function must be considered for a true understanding of the role of the hippocampus in off-line processes such as planning and consolidation.
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- Hongshen He
- Laboratory for Circuit & Behavioral Physiology, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Circuit & Behavioral Physiology, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Circuit & Behavioral Physiology, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan.
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Pietras B, Schmutz V, Schwalger T. Mesoscopic description of hippocampal replay and metastability in spiking neural networks with short-term plasticity. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1010809. [PMID: 36548392 PMCID: PMC9822116 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Revised: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Bottom-up models of functionally relevant patterns of neural activity provide an explicit link between neuronal dynamics and computation. A prime example of functional activity patterns are propagating bursts of place-cell activities called hippocampal replay, which is critical for memory consolidation. The sudden and repeated occurrences of these burst states during ongoing neural activity suggest metastable neural circuit dynamics. As metastability has been attributed to noise and/or slow fatigue mechanisms, we propose a concise mesoscopic model which accounts for both. Crucially, our model is bottom-up: it is analytically derived from the dynamics of finite-size networks of Linear-Nonlinear Poisson neurons with short-term synaptic depression. As such, noise is explicitly linked to stochastic spiking and network size, and fatigue is explicitly linked to synaptic dynamics. To derive the mesoscopic model, we first consider a homogeneous spiking neural network and follow the temporal coarse-graining approach of Gillespie to obtain a "chemical Langevin equation", which can be naturally interpreted as a stochastic neural mass model. The Langevin equation is computationally inexpensive to simulate and enables a thorough study of metastable dynamics in classical setups (population spikes and Up-Down-states dynamics) by means of phase-plane analysis. An extension of the Langevin equation for small network sizes is also presented. The stochastic neural mass model constitutes the basic component of our mesoscopic model for replay. We show that the mesoscopic model faithfully captures the statistical structure of individual replayed trajectories in microscopic simulations and in previously reported experimental data. Moreover, compared to the deterministic Romani-Tsodyks model of place-cell dynamics, it exhibits a higher level of variability regarding order, direction and timing of replayed trajectories, which seems biologically more plausible and could be functionally desirable. This variability is the product of a new dynamical regime where metastability emerges from a complex interplay between finite-size fluctuations and local fatigue.
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- Bastian Pietras
- Institute for Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Brain Mind Institute, School of Computer and Communication Sciences and School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute for Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
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Comrie AE, Frank LM, Kay K. Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20210336. [PMID: 36314152 PMCID: PMC9620759 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 08/25/2023] Open
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Imagination is a biological function that is vital to human experience and advanced cognition. Despite this importance, it remains unknown how imagination is realized in the brain. Substantial research focusing on the hippocampus, a brain structure traditionally linked to memory, indicates that firing patterns in spatially tuned neurons can represent previous and upcoming paths in space. This work has generally been interpreted under standard views that the hippocampus implements cognitive abilities primarily related to actual experience, whether in the past (e.g. recollection, consolidation), present (e.g. spatial mapping) or future (e.g. planning). However, relatively recent findings in rodents identify robust patterns of hippocampal firing corresponding to a variety of alternatives to actual experience, in many cases without overt reference to the past, present or future. Given these findings, and others on hippocampal contributions to human imagination, we suggest that a fundamental function of the hippocampus is to generate a wealth of hypothetical experiences and thoughts. Under this view, traditional accounts of hippocampal function in episodic memory and spatial navigation can be understood as particular applications of a more general system for imagination. This view also suggests that the hippocampus contributes to a wider range of cognitive abilities than previously thought. This article is part of the theme issue 'Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny'.
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- Alison E. Comrie
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Departments of Physiology and Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Departments of Physiology and Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Zuckerman Institute, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA
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Xu W, De Carvalho F, Jackson A. Conserved Population Dynamics in the Cerebro-Cerebellar System between Waking and Sleep. J Neurosci 2022; 42:9415-9425. [PMID: 36384678 PMCID: PMC9794372 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0807-22.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2022] [Revised: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Despite the importance of the cerebellum for motor learning, and the recognized role of sleep in motor memory consolidation, surprisingly little is known about neural activity in the sleeping cerebro-cerebellar system. Here, we used wireless recording from primary motor cortex (M1) and the cerebellum in three female monkeys to examine the relationship between patterns of single-unit spiking activity observed during waking behavior and in natural sleep. Across the population of recorded units, we observed similarities in the timing of firing relative to local field potential features associated with both movements during waking and up state during sleep. We also observed a consistent pattern of asymmetry in pairwise cross-correlograms, indicative of preserved sequential firing in both wake and sleep at low frequencies. Despite the overall similarity in population dynamics between wake and sleep, there was a global change in the timing of cerebellar activity relative to motor cortex, from contemporaneous in the awake state to motor cortex preceding the cerebellum in sleep. We speculate that similar population dynamics in waking and sleep may imply that cerebellar internal models are activated in both states, despite the absence of movement when asleep. Moreover, spindle frequency coherence between the cerebellum and motor cortex may provide a mechanism for cerebellar computations to influence sleep-dependent learning processes in the motor cortex.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT It is well known that sleep can lead to improved motor performance. One possibility is that off-line learning results from neural activity during sleep in brain areas responsible for the control of movement. In this study we show for the first time that neuronal patterns in the cerebro-cerebellar system are conserved during both movements and sleep up-states, albeit with a shift in the relative timing between areas. Additionally, we show the presence of simultaneous M1-cerebellar spike coherence at spindle frequencies associated with up-state replay and postulate that this is a mechanism whereby a cerebellar internal model can shape plasticity in neocortical circuits during sleep.
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- Wei Xu
- Center for Discovery Brain Sciences, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, United Kingdom
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, United Kingdom
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, United Kingdom
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Qin H, Fu L, Jian T, Jin W, Liang M, Li J, Chen Q, Yang X, Du H, Liao X, Zhang K, Wang R, Liang S, Yao J, Hu B, Ren S, Zhang C, Wang Y, Hu Z, Jia H, Konnerth A, Chen X. REM sleep-active hypothalamic neurons may contribute to hippocampal social-memory consolidation. Neuron 2022; 110:4000-4014.e6. [PMID: 36272414 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The hippocampal CA2 region plays a key role in social memory. The encoding of such memory involves afferent activity from the hypothalamic supramammillary nucleus (SuM) to CA2. However, the neuronal circuits required for consolidation of freshly encoded social memory remain unknown. Here, we used circuit-specific optical and single-cell electrophysiological recordings in mice to explore the role of sleep in social memory consolidation and its underlying circuit mechanism. We found that SuM neurons projecting to CA2 were highly active during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep but not during non-REM sleep or quiet wakefulness. REM-sleep-selective optogenetic silencing of these neurons impaired social memory. By contrast, the silencing of another group of REM sleep-active SuM neurons that projects to the dentate gyrus had no effect on social memory. Therefore, we provide causal evidence that the REM sleep-active hypothalamic neurons that project to CA2 are specifically required for the consolidation of social memory.
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- Han Qin
- Center for Neurointelligence, School of Medicine, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China; Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China.
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- Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education, School of Engineering Sciences, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China; Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China; Department of Anatomy, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Center for Neurointelligence, School of Medicine, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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- Center for Neurointelligence, School of Medicine, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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- Center for Neurointelligence, School of Medicine, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Center for Neurointelligence, School of Medicine, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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- Institute of Brain and Intelligence, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Institute of Brain and Intelligence, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Institute of Brain and Intelligence, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Institute of Brain and Intelligence, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Institute of Brain and Intelligence, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Advanced Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China; Institute of Neuroscience and the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology, Technical University of Munich, 80802 Munich, Germany; Brain Research Instrument Innovation Center, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215163, China; Combinatorial NeuroImaging Core Facility, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Advanced Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China; Institute of Neuroscience and the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology, Technical University of Munich, 80802 Munich, Germany
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China; Chongqing Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Guangyang Bay Laboratory, Chongqing 400064, China.
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Neuronal signature of spatial decision-making during navigation by freely moving rats by using calcium imaging. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2212152119. [PMID: 36279456 PMCID: PMC9636941 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212152119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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This manuscript addresses a longstanding problem about how place cell firing contributes to navigation in spatial environments, and data derived from on-line calcium imaging offer a new solution. These data support the view that prior to entering an arena where an animal will navigate to only one of several possible places on each day, a population of spatially responsive cells, including place cells, fire during the last 5 s. This population is shown to be predictive of the destination and trajectory that the animal is about to take. A challenge in spatial memory is understanding how place cell firing contributes to decision-making in navigation. A spatial recency task was created in which freely moving rats first became familiar with a spatial context over several days and thereafter were required to encode and then selectively recall one of three specific locations within it that was chosen to be rewarded that day. Calcium imaging was used to record from more than 1,000 cells in area CA1 of the hippocampus of five rats during the exploration, sample, and choice phases of the daily task. The key finding was that neural activity in the startbox rose steadily in the short period prior to entry to the arena and that this selective population cell firing was predictive of the daily changing goal on correct trials but not on trials in which the animals made errors. Single-cell and population activity measures converged on the idea that prospective coding of neural activity can be involved in navigational decision-making.
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Multiple traces and altered signal-to-noise in systems consolidation: Evidence from the 7T fMRI Natural Scenes Dataset. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2123426119. [PMID: 36279446 PMCID: PMC9636924 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2123426119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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How do the neural correlates of recognition change over time? We study natural scene image recognition spanning a year with 7-Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the human brain. We find that the medial temporal lobe (MTL) contribution to recognition persists over 200 d, supporting multiple-trace theory and contradicting a trace transfer (from MTL to cortex) point of view. We then test the hypothesis that the signal-to-noise ratio of traces increases over time, presumably a consequence of synaptic “desaturation” in the weeks following learning. The fMRI trace signature associates with the rate of removal of competing traces and reflects a time-related enhancement of image-feature selectivity. We conclude that multiple MTL traces and improved signal-to-noise may underlie systems-level memory consolidation. The brain mechanisms of memory consolidation remain elusive. Here, we examine blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) correlates of image recognition through the scope of multiple influential systems consolidation theories. We utilize the longitudinal Natural Scenes Dataset, a 7-Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging human study in which ∼135,000 trials of image recognition were conducted over the span of a year among eight subjects. We find that early- and late-stage image recognition associates with both medial temporal lobe (MTL) and visual cortex when evaluating regional activations and a multivariate classifier. Supporting multiple-trace theory (MTT), parts of the MTL activation time course show remarkable fit to a 20-y-old MTT time-dynamical model predicting early trace intensity increases and slight subsequent interference (R2 > 0.90). These findings contrast a simplistic, yet common, view that memory traces are transferred from MTL to cortex. Next, we test the hypothesis that the MTL trace signature of memory consolidation should also reflect synaptic “desaturation,” as evidenced by an increased signal-to-noise ratio. We find that the magnitude of relative BOLD enhancement among surviving memories is positively linked to the rate of removal (i.e., forgetting) of competing traces. Moreover, an image-feature and time interaction of MTL and visual cortex functional connectivity suggests that consolidation mechanisms improve the specificity of a distributed trace. These neurobiological effects do not replicate on a shorter timescale (within a session), implicating a prolonged, offline process. While recognition can potentially involve cognitive processes outside of memory retrieval (e.g., re-encoding), our work largely favors MTT and desaturation as perhaps complementary consolidative memory mechanisms.
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Mahr JB, Fischer B. Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations. PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2022; 18:688-701. [PMID: 36288434 DOI: 10.1177/17456916221120425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Do any nonhuman animals have hedonically valenced experiences not directly caused by stimuli in their current environment? Do they, like us humans, experience anticipated or previously experienced pains and pleasures as respectively painful and pleasurable? We review evidence from comparative neuroscience about hippocampus-dependent simulation in relation to this question. Hippocampal sharp-wave ripples and theta oscillations have been found to instantiate previous and anticipated experiences. These hippocampal activations coordinate with neural reward and fear centers as well as sensory and cortical areas in ways that are associated with conscious episodic mental imagery in humans. Moreover, such hippocampal “re- and preplay” has been found to contribute to instrumental decision making, the learning of value representations, and the delay of rewards in rats. The functional and structural features of hippocampal simulation are highly conserved across mammals. This evidence makes it reasonable to assume that internally triggered experiences of hedonic valence (IHVs) are pervasive across (at least) all mammals. This conclusion has important welfare implications. Most prominently, IHVs act as a kind of “welfare multiplier” through which the welfare impacts of any given experience of pain or pleasure are increased through each future retrieval. However, IHVs also have practical implications for welfare assessment and cause prioritization.
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- Department of Philosophy, Texas State University
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Liu AA, Henin S, Abbaspoor S, Bragin A, Buffalo EA, Farrell JS, Foster DJ, Frank LM, Gedankien T, Gotman J, Guidera JA, Hoffman KL, Jacobs J, Kahana MJ, Li L, Liao Z, Lin JJ, Losonczy A, Malach R, van der Meer MA, McClain K, McNaughton BL, Norman Y, Navas-Olive A, de la Prida LM, Rueckemann JW, Sakon JJ, Skelin I, Soltesz I, Staresina BP, Weiss SA, Wilson MA, Zaghloul KA, Zugaro M, Buzsáki G. A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6000. [PMID: 36224194 PMCID: PMC9556539 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33536-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Decades of rodent research have established the role of hippocampal sharp wave ripples (SPW-Rs) in consolidating and guiding experience. More recently, intracranial recordings in humans have suggested their role in episodic and semantic memory. Yet, common standards for recording, detection, and reporting do not exist. Here, we outline the methodological challenges involved in detecting ripple events and offer practical recommendations to improve separation from other high-frequency oscillations. We argue that shared experimental, detection, and reporting standards will provide a solid foundation for future translational discovery.
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- Anli A Liu
- Department of Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Washington National Primate Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Medical Scientist Training Program, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California Davis, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- The Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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- Department of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Washington National Primate Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California Davis, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB), Collège de France, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
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Shin Y, Lim J, Kim Y, Seo DG, Ihm J. Effects of virtual body-representation on motor skill learning. Sci Rep 2022; 12:15283. [PMID: 36088480 PMCID: PMC9464243 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-19514-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Motor learning is often hindered or facilitated by visual information from one's body and its movement. However, it is unclear whether visual representation of the body itself facilitates motor learning. Thus, we tested the effects of virtual body-representation on motor learning through a virtual reality rotary pursuit task. In the task, visual feedback on participants' movements was identical, but virtual body-representation differed by dividing the experimental conditions into three conditions: non-avatar, non-hand avatar, and hand-shaped avatar. We measured the differences in the rate of motor learning, body-ownership, and sense of agency in the three conditions. Although there were no differences in body-ownership and sense of agency between the conditions, the hand-shaped avatar condition was significantly superior to the other conditions in the rate of learning. These findings suggest that visually recognizing one's body shape facilitates motor learning.
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- Yongmin Shin
- Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Conservative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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- Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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When navigating through space, we must maintain a representation of our position in real time; when recalling a past episode, a memory can come back in a flash. Interestingly, the brain's spatial representation system, including the hippocampus, supports these two distinct timescale functions. How are neural representations of space used in the service of both real-world navigation and internal mnemonic processes? Recent progress has identified sequences of hippocampal place cells, evolving at multiple timescales in accordance with either navigational behaviors or internal oscillations, that underlie these functions. We review experimental findings on experience-dependent modulation of these sequential representations and consider how they link real-world navigation to time-compressed memories. We further discuss recent work suggesting the prevalence of these sequences beyond hippocampus and propose that these multiple-timescale mechanisms may represent a general algorithm for organizing cell assemblies, potentially unifying the dual roles of the spatial representation system in memory and navigation.
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- Wenbo Tang
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA;
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- Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, and Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA;
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Pfeiffer BE. Spatial Learning Drives Rapid Goal Representation in Hippocampal Ripples without Place Field Accumulation or Goal-Oriented Theta Sequences. J Neurosci 2022; 42:3975-3988. [PMID: 35396328 PMCID: PMC9097771 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2479-21.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Revised: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The hippocampus is critical for rapid acquisition of many forms of memory, although the circuit-level mechanisms through which the hippocampus rapidly consolidates novel information are unknown. Here, the activity of large ensembles of hippocampal neurons in adult male Long-Evans rats was monitored across a period of rapid spatial learning to assess how the network changes during the initial phases of memory formation and retrieval. In contrast to several reports, the hippocampal network did not display enhanced representation of the goal location via accumulation of place fields or elevated firing rates at the goal. Rather, population activity rates increased globally as a function of experience. These alterations in activity were mirrored in the power of the theta oscillation and in the quality of theta sequences, without preferential encoding of paths to the learned goal location. In contrast, during brief "offline" pauses in movement, representation of a novel goal location emerged rapidly in ripples, preceding other changes in network activity. These data demonstrate that the hippocampal network can facilitate active navigation without enhanced goal representation during periods of active movement, and further indicate that goal representation in hippocampal ripples before movement onset supports subsequent navigation, possibly through activation of downstream cortical networks.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Understanding the mechanisms through which the networks of the brain rapidly assimilate information and use previously learned knowledge are fundamental areas of focus in neuroscience. In particular, the hippocampal circuit is a critical region for rapid formation and use of spatial memory. In this study, several circuit-level features of hippocampal function were quantified while rats performed a spatial navigation task requiring rapid memory formation and use. During periods of active navigation, a general increase in overall network activity is observed during memory acquisition, which plateaus during memory retrieval periods, without specific enhanced representation of the goal location. During pauses in navigation, rapid representation of the distant goal well emerges before either behavioral improvement or changes in online activity.
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- Brad E Pfeiffer
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, Department of Neuroscience, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390
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Rolotti SV, Blockus H, Sparks FT, Priestley JB, Losonczy A. Reorganization of CA1 dendritic dynamics by hippocampal sharp-wave ripples during learning. Neuron 2022; 110:977-991.e4. [PMID: 35041805 PMCID: PMC8930454 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The hippocampus plays a critical role in memory consolidation, mediated by coordinated network activity during sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events. Despite the link between SWRs and hippocampal plasticity, little is known about how network state affects information processing in dendrites, the primary sites of synaptic input integration and plasticity. Here, we monitored somatic and basal dendritic activity in CA1 pyramidal cells in behaving mice using longitudinal two-photon calcium imaging integrated with simultaneous local field potential recordings. We found immobility was associated with an increase in dendritic activity concentrated during SWRs. Coincident dendritic and somatic activity during SWRs predicted increased coupling during subsequent exploration of a novel environment. In contrast, somatic-dendritic coupling and SWR recruitment varied with cells' tuning distance to reward location during a goal-learning task. Our results connect SWRs with the stabilization of information processing within CA1 neurons and suggest that these mechanisms may be dynamically biased by behavioral demands.
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- Sebi V Rolotti
- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
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In human neuroscience, studies of cognition are rarely grounded in non-task-evoked, 'spontaneous' neural activity. Indeed, studies of spontaneous activity tend to focus predominantly on intrinsic neural patterns (for example, resting-state networks). Taking a 'representation-rich' approach bridges the gap between cognition and resting-state communities: this approach relies on decoding task-related representations from spontaneous neural activity, allowing quantification of the representational content and rich dynamics of such activity. For example, if we know the neural representation of an episodic memory, we can decode its subsequent replay during rest. We argue that such an approach advances cognitive research beyond a focus on immediate task demand and provides insight into the functional relevance of the intrinsic neural pattern (for example, the default mode network). This in turn enables a greater integration between human and animal neuroscience, facilitating experimental testing of theoretical accounts of intrinsic activity, and opening new avenues of research in psychiatry.
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Nyberg N, Duvelle É, Barry C, Spiers HJ. Spatial goal coding in the hippocampal formation. Neuron 2022; 110:394-422. [PMID: 35032426 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Revised: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The mammalian hippocampal formation contains several distinct populations of neurons involved in representing self-position and orientation. These neurons, which include place, grid, head direction, and boundary-vector cells, are thought to collectively instantiate cognitive maps supporting flexible navigation. However, to flexibly navigate, it is necessary to also maintain internal representations of goal locations, such that goal-directed routes can be planned and executed. Although it has remained unclear how the mammalian brain represents goal locations, multiple neural candidates have recently been uncovered during different phases of navigation. For example, during planning, sequential activation of spatial cells may enable simulation of future routes toward the goal. During travel, modulation of spatial cells by the prospective route, or by distance and direction to the goal, may allow maintenance of route and goal-location information, supporting navigation on an ongoing basis. As the goal is approached, an increased activation of spatial cells may enable the goal location to become distinctly represented within cognitive maps, aiding goal localization. Lastly, after arrival at the goal, sequential activation of spatial cells may represent the just-taken route, enabling route learning and evaluation. Here, we review and synthesize these and other evidence for goal coding in mammalian brains, relate the experimental findings to predictions from computational models, and discuss outstanding questions and future challenges.
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- Nils Nyberg
- Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK.
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK.
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Ross TW, Easton A. The Hippocampal Horizon: Constructing and Segmenting Experience for Episodic Memory. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 132:181-196. [PMID: 34826509 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.11.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Revised: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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How do we recollect specific events that have occurred during continuous ongoing experience? There is converging evidence from non-human animals that spatially modulated cellular activity of the hippocampal formation supports the construction of ongoing events. On the other hand, recent human oriented event cognition models have outlined that our experience is segmented into discrete units, and that such segmentation can operate on shorter or longer timescales. Here, we describe a unification of how these dynamic physiological mechanisms of the hippocampus relate to ongoing externally and internally driven event segmentation, facilitating the demarcation of specific moments during experience. Our cross-species interdisciplinary approach offers a novel perspective in the way we construct and remember specific events, leading to the generation of many new hypotheses for future research.
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- T W Ross
- Department of Psychology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom; Centre for Learning and Memory Processes, Durham University, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Psychology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom; Centre for Learning and Memory Processes, Durham University, United Kingdom
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