Hippocampal Motifs
Zahra Aghajan, Lavanya Acharya, Jesse Cushman, Cliff Vuong, Jason Moore, Mayank Mehta
This study investigates hippocampal neuron activity in virtual reality and real-world environments, finding that spatial selectivity is reduced in VR but phase-precession (hippocampal motifs) persists, suggesting intrinsic network mechanisms generate temporal coding independent of spatial localization.
Nature Neuroscience · Nov 24, 2014Peer-reviewedNeuroscience