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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Context‐specific acquisition of location discrimination by hippocampal place cells
Beteiligte:
Hayman, Robin M. A.;
Chakraborty, Subhojit;
Anderson, Michael I.;
Jeffery, Kathryn J.
Erschienen:
Wiley, 2003
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Neuroscience, 18 (2003) 10, Seite 2825-2834
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1111/j.1460-9568.2003.03035.x
ISSN:
0953-816X;
1460-9568
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AbstractThe spatially localized firing of rodent hippocampal place cells is strongly determined by the local geometry of the environment. Over time, however, the cells can acquire additional inputs, including inputs from more distal cues. This is manifest as a change in firing pattern (‘remapping’) when the new inputs are manipulated. Place cells also reorganize their firing in response to non‐geometric changes in ‘context’, such as a change in the colour or odour of the environment. The present study investigated whether the new inputs acquired by place cells in one context were still available to the cells when they expressed their altered firing patterns in a new context. We found that the acquired information did not transfer to the new context, suggesting that the context inputs and the acquired inputs must interact somewhere upstream of the place cells themselves. We present a model of one possible such interaction, and of how such an interaction could be modified by experience in a Hebbian manner, thus explaining the context specificity of the new learning.