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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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“representations of rewarded spatial locations are preferentially reactivated in both wake and sleep states, 80,81,[142][143][144] although there are also findings of a bias of reactivations in the opposite direction.”
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“both sleep and wake replay can represent knowledge about an environment and also share anticipatory features, such that they can e.g., include offline ''pre-activations'' of trajectories entailing visible but yet unexplored paths and locations.”
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“Along with these human studies, there is now an accumulating wealth of reports of the sort of neural response profile that would be predicted if indeed an animal is evaluating a menu of internally represented actions and their consequences at critical decision points.”
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“They do so in a manner consistent with the idea that the subject is engaged in some form of deliberation regarding its future potential states and the worth thereof (Johnson and Redish, 2007; Pfeiffer and Foster, 2013; van der Meer and Redish, 2009), for instance, being correlated with the subject’s ultimate choices.”
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“In particular, at decision points such as a branch point in a maze, hippocampal place cell responses can be observed to sweep forward from the actual location of the subject.”
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“rats have been argued to show behavioural and neurological evidence for what appears to be future planning [172], or at least, the precursors to planning [89,173,174].”
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“pathways to remembered goals were ‘pre-played’ before they engaged in goal-directed navigation through an area, even when the specific routes were novel [172].”
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“This pre-play directly predicts future navigation behaviour, suggesting its role in future planning.”
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Metadata
- 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
- PMC
- PMC3990408
- OpenAlex
- W1975958074
- Cited by
- 1,216
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 45.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- 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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