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Location of the hippocampus in the rat Location of the hippocampus - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Location of the hippocampus in the rat Location of the hippocampus - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Location of the hippocampus in the rat Location of the hippocampus in the rat Location of the hippocampus Location of the hippocampus brain brain in the human brain in the human brain Olfactory bulb Olfactory bulb Hippocampus Hippocampus
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Hippocampus: Thought to be involved in 1) short term memory 2) memory consolidation ) y 3) episodal memory 4) spatial orientation
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Today: Spatial representation, spatial coding, place cells? Spatial representation, spatial coding, place cells?
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White rat: actual position. red and green: model predictions spiking activity f ll
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recorded in this animal
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White rat: actual position. red and green: model predictions spiking activity f ll
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recorded in this animal
Approach: at each time step, calculate the probability that rat is at coordinates (x,y) given the neural activity. The parameters of such a model are continuously updated and the model can predict the location of the rat better and better. The parameters can then give insight into the characteristics of the neural activity relevant to encoding position. The evolution of the parameters can give insights into the plasticity of the system.
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In space
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Cells fire only where there is food!
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Exercise
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You recorded from 7 neurons in the hippocampus while a rat was running around in a box. The circles represent each neuron’s “place field”.
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p a) What would you expect to see I your recordings while the rat followed the path depicted in red asterisks ? b) Could you predict the responses of an eighth neuron from
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b) Cou d you p ed ct t e espo ses o a e g t eu o
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Visual neurons Hippocampal neurons
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Hippocampal neurons
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Visual neurons Hippocampal neurons
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Hippocampal neurons
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Is place cells the right name? p g
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Simultaneous theta and gamma oscillations recoded in the rat hippocampus Simultaneous theta and gamma oscillations recoded in the rat hippocampus Theta oscillations : 4-10 Hz 100 ms Theta oscillations : 4-10 Hz 100 ms Gamma oscillations : 40-60 Hz Gamma oscillations : 40-60 Hz 25 ms 25 ms
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There are approximately 5-7 gamma cycles in one theta cycle; hen a rat mo es on a linear track hippocampal p ramidal cells when a rat moves on a linear track, hippocampal pyramidal cells spike on a given gamma cycle depending on the rat's location (phase precession)
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ate Firing ra Location (cm) ( )
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ase of theta ng rate/Pha Location (cm) Firi Spatial resolution of Spatial resolution of spike alone Spatial resolution of phase Spatial resolution of phase
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Does rate alone convey information?
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Nature 425, 828-832 (23 October 2003) | doi:10.1038/nature02058; , ( ) | ; Received 15 May 2003; Accepted 15 September 2003 Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells John Huxter1 3 Neil Burgess1 2 & John O'Keefe1 2 John Huxter1,3, Neil Burgess1,2 & John O Keefe1,2
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- a. Behavioural task: rat shuttles back and forth along linear track between food
rewards contained in cups attached to movable walls.
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b, False-colour firing field of a place cell created from multiple runs in the eastward direction.
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c, EEG theta rhythm and place cell firing (in red) for the same cell on a single eastward run. Ticks above the spikes indicate + to - zero crossings g p g (0°/360° phase) for each theta wave, lines through theta waves indicate 270°. Bursts of spikes occur at higher than theta frequency causing each successive burst to move to an earlier phase of the theta cycle, despite initially rising then falling firing rate Theta cycle phase of spikes for initially rising, then falling firing rate. Theta cycle phase of spikes for multiple runs from a place cell is plotted against position
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Rate of bursts is higher than theta : as a consequence cells fire earlier and earlier during theta during theta (phase precession) Phase and rate co-vary
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a, Phase depends on location, b i hi h t i th l thi d being highest in the early third
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middle third, and lowest in the late third. c IFR starts low increases in c, IFR starts low, increases in the middle third and then decreases in the late part of the field. IFR: Instantaneous firing rate
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Rate does not affect phase
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Phase and rate can be independent – do they encode different variables?
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