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Memory and Neural Mechanisms
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- NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Hippocampal mechanisms support cortisol-induced memory enhancements
Brynn E. Sherman, Bailey B. Harris, Nicholas B. Turk‐Browne…·Elizabeth V. Goldfarb
This study investigates how cortisol affects hippocampal mechanisms supporting memory encoding, finding enhanced functional connectivity and altered representation patterns that predict memory improvements for emotional information.
- NeuroscienceNeuronPeer-reviewed
Direct Cortical Inputs to Hippocampal Area CA1 Transmit Complementary Signals for Goal-directed Navigation
John C. Bowler, Attila Losonczy
This study uses in vivo imaging to show that MEC and LEC axons to CA1 transmit distinct yet overlapping spatial and goal-related signals during navigation.
57 citationstop 1% - NeuroscienceHippocampusPeer-reviewed
A thalamo-parietal cortex circuit is critical for place-action coordination
Christine M. Simmons, Shawn C. Moseley, Jordan D. Ogg…·Aaron A. Wilber
This study investigates the role of the thalamo-parietal cortex circuit in place-action coordination using a place-action task in rats.
5 citations - NeuroscienceNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Ketamine evoked disruption of entorhinal and hippocampal spatial maps
Francis Kei Masuda, Emily A Aery Jones, Yanjun Sun, Lisa Marie Giocomo
This study investigates how ketamine affects spatial coding in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus, finding acute disruption and long-term reorganization of spatial representations.
36 citationstop 3% - NeuroscienceNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Activity-dependent organization of prefrontal hub-networks for associative learning and signal transformation
Masakazu Agetsuma, Issei Sato, Yasuhiro R. Tanaka…·Takeharu Nagai
The paper uses computational methods to analyze neural activity in the mouse dmPFC during fear conditioning, revealing learning-dependent changes in network topology and hub formation.
- NeuroscienceNature Human BehaviourPeer-reviewed
Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans
Luca D. Kolibius, Frédéric Roux, George Parish…·Simon Hanslmayr
The paper identifies hippocampal neurons that code for discrete episodic memories using rate or temporal firing codes, rather than individual elements within an episode.
73 citationstop 1% - NeuroscienceThe Journal of Comparative NeurologyPeer-reviewed
A multifaceted architectural framework of the mouse claustrum complex
Joachim S. Grimstvedt, Andrew M. Shelton, Anna Hoerder‐Suabedissen…·Clifford G. Kentros
This paper delineates four subregions within the mouse claustrum complex using fiber-architecture, genetic markers, and connectivity data, providing a reference framework for future studies.
38 citationstop 3% - NeuroscienceCell ReportsPeer-reviewed
MEG frequency tagging reveals a grid-like code during covert attentional movements
Giuliano Giari, Lorenzo Vignali, Yangwen Xu, Roberto Bottini
This study shows that covert attentional movements can elicit grid-like neural responses in humans using MEG and frequency tagging.
10 citations - NeuroscienceNeuronPeer-reviewed
High-throughput sequencing of macaque basolateral amygdala projections reveals dissociable connectional motifs with frontal cortex
Zachary R Zeisler, Liza London, William G.M. Janssen…·Peter H. Rudebeck
The paper uses MAPseq to analyze BLA neuron projections in macaques, finding that many neurons project to multiple brain regions and form structured networks.
- NeuroscienceCurrent BiologyPeer-reviewed
Theta-band phase locking during encoding leads to coordinated entorhinal-hippocampal replay
Diogo Santos-Pata, Caswell Barry, H. Freyja Ólafsdóttir
This study investigates how theta-band phase locking between entorhinal and hippocampal neurons supports memory consolidation during replay.
10 citations - NeuroscienceNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Mapping the spatial transcriptomic signature of the hippocampus during memory consolidation
Yann S. Vanrobaeys, Utsav Mukherjee, Lucy Langmack…·Snehajyoti Chatterjee
This study uses spatial transcriptomics to identify distinct gene expression signatures in hippocampal subregions during memory consolidation and shows their functional relevance.
41 citationstop 2% - NeuroscienceCurrent BiologyPeer-reviewed
Representations of tactile object location in the retrosplenial cortex
Andreas Sigstad Lande, Anna Christina Garvert, Nora Cecilie Ebbesen…·Koen Vervaeke
This study identifies a population of neurons in the retrosplenial cortex that encode tactile object location in a spatial reference frame, showing task- and context-dependent responses and memory traces.
13 citations - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
The structure of hippocampal CA1 interactions optimizes spatial coding across experience
Michele Nardin, Jozsef L. Csicsvari, Gašper Tkačik, Cristina Savin
The paper reveals structured cell-to-cell interactions in hippocampal CA1 that optimize spatial coding in familiar and novel environments through statistical modeling and maximum entropy frameworks.
9 citations - NeuroscienceCell ReportsPeer-reviewed
A manifold neural population code for space in hippocampal coactivity dynamics independent of place fields
Eliott R. J. Levy, Simon Segura-Carrillo, Eunhye Park…·André Antonio Fenton
The paper investigates an alternative spatial code in hippocampal coactivity dynamics, showing that environment decoding from ensemble coactivity improves with experience and relies on anti-cofiring cell-pair relationships.
45 citationstop 2% - NeuroscienceCerebral CortexPeer-reviewed
Temporal association activates projections from the perirhinal cortex and ventral CA1 to the prelimbic cortex and from the prelimbic cortex to the basolateral amygdala
Thays Brenner Santos, Juliana Carlota Kramer Soares, Cesar A.O. Coelho, Maria Gabriela Menezes Oliveira
The paper investigates neural circuits involved in temporal associations by analyzing projections between brain regions in mice during fear conditioning tasks.
6 citations - Animal Behavior & CognitionHormones and BehaviorPeer-reviewed
Sex differences in avoidance behavior and cued threat memory dynamics in mice: Interactions between estrous cycle and genetic background
Garret L. Ryherd, Averie L. Bunce, Haley A. Edwards…·Elizabeth K. Lucas
This study examines sex differences in avoidance behavior and cued threat memory in mice across genetic strains and estrous cycles, finding genetic and hormonal influences on anxiety-related behaviors.
21 citations - Molecular BiologyCell ReportsPeer-reviewed
Silc1 long noncoding RNA is an immediate-early gene promoting efficient memory formation
Rotem Ben‐Tov Perry, Michael Tsoory, Michael Tolmasov, Igor Ulitsky
This study identifies Silc1 as an immediate-early gene that promotes memory formation by activating Sox11 and its target genes in the hippocampus.
16 citations - NeuroscienceNeuronPeer-reviewed
Goal-seeking compresses neural codes for space in the human hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex
Paul S. Muhle-Karbe, Hannah Sheahan, Giovanni Pezzulo…·Christopher Summerfield
The paper shows that goal-directed behavior compresses neural representations of space in the hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex, with compressed representations predicting successful learning.
- NeuroscienceEuropean Journal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Hippocampal damage causes retrograde amnesia for objects' visual, but not odour, properties in male rats
Sean G. Lacoursiere, Brendan B. McAllister, Crystal Hadikin…·Robert J. Sutherland
This study shows that hippocampal damage in rats impairs visual object memory but preserves odour-based memory in a discrimination task.
3 citations - NeuroscienceeLifePeer-reviewed
Associative memory neurons of encoding multi-modal signals are recruited by neuroligin-3 mediated new synapse formation
Yang Xu, Tian-Liang Cui, Jia-yi Li…·Jin-Hui Wang
The paper investigates how associative memory neurons encode and retrieve multi-modal signals through neuroligin-3 mediated synapse formation in mice.
4 citations - NeurosciencebioRxiv
Non-feature-specific elevated responses and feature-specific backward replay in human brain induced by visual sequence exposure
Tao He, Xizi Gong, Qian Wang…·Fang Fang
This study shows that visual sequence exposure induces non-feature-specific elevated responses and feature-specific backward replay in the human brain, suggesting distinct functional roles in processing and learning sequences.
DOI 10.7554/elife.101511 - NeuroscienceiSciencePeer-reviewed
Short-term auditory priming in freely-moving mice
Shir Sivroni, Hadas E. Sloin, Eran Stark
This study establishes a behavioral paradigm for studying short-term auditory priming in mice and finds a priming effect in success rate but not response time.
5 citations - NeuroscienceNeuroscience LettersPeer-reviewed
Chronotate: An open-source tool for manual timestamping and quantification of animal behavior
Paul A. Philipsberg, Zoé Christenson Wick, Keziah S. Diego…·Tristan Shuman
Chronotate is an open-source tool for manually scoring rodent behavior videos, providing detailed temporal data to analyze interaction patterns in novel object tasks.
- NeuroscienceMolecular NeurobiologyPeer-reviewed
Genetic ablation of dentate hilar somatostatin-positive GABAergic interneurons is sufficient to induce cognitive impairment
Rajasekar Nagarajan, Jinrui Lyu, Maltesh Kambali…·Uwe Rudolph
This study shows that partial genetic ablation of hilar SOM+ interneurons induces cognitive impairments similar to those seen in aging.
14 citations - NeuroscienceeNeuroPeer-reviewed
The role of genetically distinct central amygdala neurons in appetitive and aversive responding assayed with a novel dual valence operant conditioning paradigm.
Mariia Dorofeikova, Claire E. Stelly, Anh Duong…·Jonathan Paul Fadok
This paper develops a dual valence operant conditioning paradigm to study appetitive and aversive behaviors in mice and tests the role of central amygdala neurons in these responses.
3 citations - Animal Behavior & CognitionCerebral CortexPeer-reviewed
A comparison of behavior paradigms assessing spatial memory in tree shrew
Cheng-Ji Li, Yi-Qing Hui, Rong Zhang…·Li Lu
This study compares behavior paradigms for assessing spatial memory in tree shrews, finding the cheeseboard task most sensitive to spatial memory deficits after hippocampal lesions.
- NeurosciencePLoS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewed
Rapid memory encoding in a recurrent network model with behavioral time scale synaptic plasticity
The paper develops a simplified computational model of Behavioral Time-scale Plasticity (BTSP) to study memory storage in recurrent neural networks and shows it enhances memory capacity.
13 citations - NeuroscienceeLifePeer-reviewed
Adult-born granule cells modulate CA2 network activity during retrieval of developmental memories of the mother
Blake J. Laham, Isha R. Gore, Casey J Brown, Elizabeth Gould
This study shows adult-born granule cells in the hippocampus are necessary for retrieving remote developmental memories of the mother in adult mice.
4 citations