Dynamic embedding of salience coding in hippocampal spatial maps
Masaaki Sato, Kotaro Mizuta, Tanvir Islam, Masako Kawano, Takashi Takekawa, Daniel Gómez-Domínguez, Karam Kim, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Masamichi Ohkura, Tomoki Fukai, Junichi Nakai, Yasunori Hayashi
The paper investigates how hippocampal CA1 neurons dynamically represent and stabilize spatial maps in mice learning a virtual-reality navigation task, showing that salient experiences like rewards reshape these maps through selective consolidation.
bioRxiv · Feb 18, 2018 · PreprintNeuroscience