Place cell firing shows an inertia-like process

A. David Redish; Bruce L. McNaughton; Carol A. Barnes

doi:10.1016/S0925-2312(00)00169-7

Place cell firing shows an inertia-like process

A. David Redish, Bruce L. McNaughton, Carol A. Barnes

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Abstract

Place cells were recorded from five animals performing a shuttle task on a linear track in which reward was only available at one end of the journey. Although place fields during the journey itself were directional, place fields at the turn-around point were bidirectional. Place fields that were directional on full-length journeys became locally bidirectional when the animal turned around in the middle of the place field. This suggests that place cells show an inertia-like process in which, once they begin firing, they continue firing whatever trajectory the animal takes. This process would be useful for storing routes and sequences. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	235-241
Number of pages	7
Journal	Neurocomputing
Volume	32-33
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0925-2312(00)00169-7
State	Published - Jun 2000
Event	The 8th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS'99) - Pittsburgh, PA, USA Duration: Jul 18 1999 → Jul 22 1999

Keywords

Cognitive maps
Directional place cells
Hippocampus
Spatial reasoning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Cognitive Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence

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