A theory of joint attractor dynamics in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex accounts for artificial remapping and grid cell field-to-field variability

© 2020, Agmon and Burak..

The representation of position in the mammalian brain is distributed across multiple neural populations. Grid cell modules in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) express activity patterns that span a low-dimensional manifold which remains stable across different environments. In contrast, the activity patterns of hippocampal place cells span distinct low-dimensional manifolds in different environments. It is unknown how these multiple representations of position are coordinated. Here, we develop a theory of joint attractor dynamics in the hippocampus and the MEC. We show that the system exhibits a coordinated, joint representation of position across multiple environments, consistent with global remapping in place cells and grid cells. In addition, our model accounts for recent experimental observations that lack a mechanistic explanation: variability in the firing rate of single grid cells across firing fields, and artificial remapping of place cells under depolarization, but not under hyperpolarization, of layer II stellate cells of the MEC.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

eLife - 9(2020) vom: 11. Aug.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Agmon, Haggai [VerfasserIn]
Burak, Yoram [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Attractor networks
Computational neuroscience
Entorhinal cortex
Hippcampus
Journal Article
Mouse
Neuroscience
Rat
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Spatial memory
Theoretical neuroscience

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Date Completed 25.02.2021

Date Revised 25.02.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.7554/eLife.56894

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313544514