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Preplay of future place cell sequences by hippocampal cellular assemblies

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Dragoi, George, Tonegawa, Susumu·2011·Nature

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During spatial exploration, hippocampal neurons show a sequential firing pattern in which individual neurons fire specifically at particular locations along the animal's trajectory (place cells). According to the dominant model of hippocampal cell assembly activity, place cell firing order is established for the first time during exploration, to encode the spatial experience, and is subsequently replayed during rest or slow-wave sleep for consolidation of the encoded experience. Here we report that temporal sequences of firing of place cells expressed during a novel spatial experience occurred on a significant number of occasions during the resting or sleeping period preceding the experience. This phenomenon, which is called preplay, occurred in disjunction with sequences of replay of a familiar experience. These results suggest that internal neuronal dynamics during resting or sleep organize hippocampal cellular assemblies into temporal sequences that contribute to the encoding of a related novel experience occurring in the future.

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  • More recent evidence concerning regions critical for image generation points specifically to part of the left fusiform gyrus, which may be well positioned to mediate interactions between language areas and high-level visual areas.

    “More recent evidence concerning regions critical for image generation points specifically to part of the left fusiform gyrus, which may be well positioned to mediate interactions between language areas and high-level visual areas305,306.”

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    “Interestingly, RA burst activity during sleep in some of these cases appeared to be more similar to that observed during singing after sleep than before sleep, suggesting a kind of”

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Authors
Dragoi, G., & Tonegawa, S.
Affiliations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Corresponding author
  • Dragoi, George
  • Tonegawa, Susumu
Venue
Nature
Published
2010-12-22
Volume
469
Issue
7330
Pages
397-401
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2060671266
Cited by
716
References
32
Citations by year
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FWCI
18.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH058880, R01MH078821)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Keywords
place cells, hippocampus, spatial memory, memory consolidation, sleep, resting state, firing sequences, memory encoding
MeSH terms
Action Potentials, Animals, Bayes Theorem, Eating, Food, Hippocampus, Memory, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Models, Neurological, Neurons, Orientation, Rest, Sleep, Space Perception, Time Factors, Mice

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