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Hippocampal place-cell sequences depict future paths to remembered goals

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Effective navigation requires planning extended routes to remembered goal locations. Hippocampal place cells have been proposed to have a role in navigational planning, but direct evidence has been lacking. Here we show that before goal-directed navigation in an open arena, the rat hippocampus generates brief sequences encoding spatial trajectories strongly biased to progress from the subject's current location to a known goal location. These sequences predict immediate future behaviour, even in cases in which the specific combination of start and goal locations is novel. These results indicate that hippocampal sequence events characterized previously in linearly constrained environments as 'replay' are also capable of supporting a goal-directed, trajectory-finding mechanism, which identifies important places and relevant behavioural paths, at specific times when memory retrieval is required, and in a manner that could be used to control subsequent navigational behaviour.

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Authors
Pfeiffer, B. E., & Foster, D. J.
Affiliations
Johns Hopkins University (US)
Corresponding author
Foster, David J.
Venue
Nature
Published
2013-04-17
Volume
497
Issue
7447
Pages
74-79
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W1975958074
Cited by
1,216
References
53
Citations by year
2026: 67 · 2025: 111 · 2024: 78 · 2023: 88 · 2022: 89 · 2021: 96 · 2020: 107 · 2019: 121 · 2018: 103 · 2017: 106 · 2016: 86 · 2015: 73 · 2014: 64 · 2013: 26
FWCI
45.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (MH085823, R01MH085823)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Keywords
place cells, goal-directed navigation, memory replay, rats, memory retrieval, spatial memory
MeSH terms
Animals, Decision Making, Goals, Hippocampus, Locomotion, Male, Memory, Probability, Rats, Long-Evans, Rats

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