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Hippocampal Place Cells Acquire Location-Specific Responses to the Conditioned Stimulus during Auditory Fear Conditioning

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Moita, Marta A.P., Rosis, Svetlana, Zhou, Yu, LeDoux, Joseph E., Blair, Hugh T.·2003·Neuron

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We recorded neurons from the hippocampus of freely behaving rats during an auditory fear conditioning task. Rats received either paired or unpaired presentations of an auditory conditioned stimulus (CS) and an electric shock unconditioned stimulus (US). Hippocampal neurons (place and theta cells) acquired responses to the auditory CS in the paired but not in the unpaired group. After CS-US pairing, rhythmic firing of theta cells became synchronized to the onset of the CS. Conditioned responses of place cells were gated by their location-specific firing, so that after CS-US pairing, place cells responded to the CS only when the rat was within the cell's place field. These findings may help to elucidate how the hippocampus contributes to context-specific memory formation during associative learning.

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Authors
Moita, M. A. P., Rosis, S., Zhou, Y., LeDoux, J. E., & Blair, H. T.
Affiliations
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (US)
  • New York University (US)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
Corresponding author
Blair, Hugh T.
Venue
Neuron
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2003-02
Volume
37
Issue
3
Pages
485-497
ISSN
0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2056752966
Cited by
295
References
71
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FWCI
7.72
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Neuron (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Institutional Repository (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5k02mh000956-07)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH12341, MH 46516, MH 00956, F32MH012341, R01MH046516, MH38774)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
Keywords
place cells, auditory fear conditioning, conditioned stimulus, CS-US pairing, place fields, associative learning, hippocampal neurons
MeSH terms
Acoustic Stimulation, Animals, Association Learning, Behavior, Animal, Conditioning, Psychological, Electrophysiology, Electroshock, Fear, Hippocampus, Male, Movement, Space Perception, Theta Rhythm, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Rats

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