Working memory features are embedded in hippocampal place fields
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Working memory features are embedded in hippocampal place fields. / Varga, Viktor; Petersen, Peter; Zutshi, Ipshita; Huszar, Roman; Zhang, Yiyao; Buzsáki, György.
In: Cell Reports, Vol. 43, No. 3, 113807, 2024.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Working memory features are embedded in hippocampal place fields
AU - Varga, Viktor
AU - Petersen, Peter
AU - Zutshi, Ipshita
AU - Huszar, Roman
AU - Zhang, Yiyao
AU - Buzsáki, György
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s)
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Hippocampal principal neurons display both spatial tuning properties and memory features. Whether this distinction corresponds to separate neuron types or a context-dependent continuum has been debated. We report here that the task-context (“splitter”) feature is highly variable along both trial and spatial position axes. Neurons acquire or lose splitter features across trials even when place field features remain unaltered. Multiple place fields of the same neuron can individually encode both past or future run trajectories, implying that splitter fields are under the control of assembly activity. Place fields can be differentiated into subfields by the behavioral choice of the animal, and splitting within subfields evolves across trials. Interneurons also differentiate choices by integrating inputs from pyramidal cells. Finally, bilateral optogenetic inactivation of the medial entorhinal cortex reversibly decreases the fraction of splitter fields. Our findings suggest that place or splitter features are different manifestations of the same hippocampal computation.
AB - Hippocampal principal neurons display both spatial tuning properties and memory features. Whether this distinction corresponds to separate neuron types or a context-dependent continuum has been debated. We report here that the task-context (“splitter”) feature is highly variable along both trial and spatial position axes. Neurons acquire or lose splitter features across trials even when place field features remain unaltered. Multiple place fields of the same neuron can individually encode both past or future run trajectories, implying that splitter fields are under the control of assembly activity. Place fields can be differentiated into subfields by the behavioral choice of the animal, and splitting within subfields evolves across trials. Interneurons also differentiate choices by integrating inputs from pyramidal cells. Finally, bilateral optogenetic inactivation of the medial entorhinal cortex reversibly decreases the fraction of splitter fields. Our findings suggest that place or splitter features are different manifestations of the same hippocampal computation.
KW - assembly
KW - context
KW - CP: Neuroscience
KW - hippocampus
KW - medial entorhinal cortex
KW - spatial alternation
KW - splitter
KW - working memory
U2 - 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113807
DO - 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113807
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 38401118
AN - SCOPUS:85185707346
VL - 43
JO - Cell Reports
JF - Cell Reports
SN - 2211-1247
IS - 3
M1 - 113807
ER -
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