navigation and spatial memory
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2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ane Charlotte Christensen ◽  
Kristian Kinden Lensjø ◽  
Mikkel Elle Lepperød ◽  
Svenn-Arne Dragly ◽  
Halvard Sutterud ◽  
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AbstractGrid cells are part of a widespread network that supports navigation and spatial memory. Stable grid patterns appear late in development, in concert with extracellular matrix aggregates termed perineuronal nets (PNNs) that condense around inhibitory neurons. To reveal the relationship between stable spatial representations and the presence of PNNs we recorded from populations of neurons in adult rats. We show that removal of PNNs leads to lower inhibitory spiking activity, and reduces grid cells’ ability to create stable representations of a novel environment. Furthermore, in animals with disrupted PNNs, exposure to a novel arena corrupted the spatiotemporal relationships within grid cell modules, and the stored representations of a familiar arena. Finally, we show that PNN removal in entorhinal cortex distorted spatial representations in downstream hippocampal neurons. Together this work suggests that PNNs provide a key stabilizing element for the grid cell network.



Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 365 (6449) ◽  
pp. eaax4192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick A. LaChance ◽  
Travis P. Todd ◽  
Jeffrey S. Taube

A topographic representation of local space is critical for navigation and spatial memory. In humans, topographic spatial learning relies upon the parahippocampal cortex, damage to which renders patients unable to navigate their surroundings or develop new spatial representations. Stable spatial signals have not yet been observed in its rat homolog, the postrhinal cortex. We recorded from single neurons in the rat postrhinal cortex whose firing reflects an animal’s egocentric relationship to the geometric center of the local environment, as well as the animal’s head direction in an allocentric reference frame. Combining these firing correlates revealed a population code for a stable topographic map of local space. This may form the basis for higher-order spatial maps such as those seen in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex.



2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mélanie Cogné ◽  
Sophie Auriacombe ◽  
Louise Vasa ◽  
François Tison ◽  
Evelyne Klinger ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexia Galati ◽  
Steven M. Weisberg ◽  
Nora S. Newcombe ◽  
Marios N. Avraamides


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 1373
Author(s):  
Erica Barhorst ◽  
Kristina Rand ◽  
Sarah Creem-Regehr


2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1137-1137
Author(s):  
P. S. Guterman ◽  
R. S. Allison ◽  
S. Jennings ◽  
G. Craig ◽  
A. Parush ◽  
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Author(s):  
Hanspeter A. Mallot ◽  
Matthias Franz ◽  
Bernhard Schälkopf ◽  
Heinrich H. Bülthoff


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