Lateral entorhinal cortex subpopulations represent experiential epochs surrounding reward

JB Issa, BA Radvansky, F Xuan, DA Dombeck - Nature neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
During goal-directed navigation,'what'information, describing the experiences occurring in
periods surrounding a reward, can be combined with spatial 'where'information to guide …

Different encoding of reward location in dorsal and intermediate hippocampus

P Jarzebowski, YA Hay, BF Grewe, O Paulsen - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Hippocampal place cells fire at specific locations in the environment. They form a cognitive
map that encodes spatial relations in the environment, including reward locations. 1 As part …

Medial entorhinal cortex mediates learning of context-dependent interval timing behavior

ER Bigus, HW Lee, JC Bowler, J Shi, JG Heys - Nature Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Episodic memory requires encoding the temporal structure of experience and relies on brain
circuits in the medial temporal lobe, including the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC). Recent …

Full field-of-view virtual reality goggles for mice

D Pinke, JB Issa, GA Dara, G Dobos, DA Dombeck - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Visual virtual reality (VR) systems for head-fixed mice offer advantages over real-world
studies for investigating the neural circuitry underlying behavior. However, current VR …

Multiple long-range projections convey position information to the agranular retrosplenial cortex

M Gianatti, AC Garvert, N Lenkey, NC Ebbesen… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Neuronal signals encoding the animal's position widely modulate neocortical processing.
While these signals are assumed to depend on hippocampal output, their origin has not …

Behavior determines the hippocampal spatial mapping of a multisensory environment

BA Radvansky, JY Oh, JR Climer, DA Dombeck - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Animals behave in multisensory environments guided by various modalities of spatial
information. Mammalian navigation engages a cognitive map of space in the hippocampus …

Postsynaptic burst reactivation of hippocampal neurons enables associative plasticity of temporally discontiguous inputs

T Fuchsberger, C Clopath, P Jarzebowski, Z Brzosko… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
A fundamental unresolved problem in neuroscience is how the brain associates in memory
events that are separated in time. Here, we propose that reactivation-induced synaptic …

Hierarchical gradients of encoded spatial and sensory information in the neocortex are attenuated by dorsal hippocampal lesions

AM Demchuk, IM Esteves, HR Chang, J Sun… - Journal of …, 2024 - jneurosci.org
During navigation, the neocortex actively integrates learned spatial context with current
sensory experience to guide behaviors. However, the relative encoding of spatial and …

Choice of method of place cell classification determines the population of cells identified

DM Grijseels, K Shaw, C Barry… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Place cells, spatially responsive hippocampal cells, provide the neural substrate supporting
navigation and spatial memory. Historically most studies of these neurons have used …

NIT: an open-source tool for information theoretic analysis of neural population data

R Maffulli, MA Casal, M Celotto, S Zucca, H Safaai… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Information theory provides a popular and principled framework for the analysis of
neural data. It allows to uncover in an assumption-free way how neurons encode and …