Position reconstruction from an ensemble of hippocampal place cells: Contribution of theta phase coding
Position reconstruction from an ensemble of hippocampal place cells: Contribution of theta phase coding
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DOI:
10.1152/jn.2000.83.5.2602
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发表时间:
2000-05-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Lisman, JE
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作者:
Jensen, O;Lisman, JE
Previous analysis of the firing of individual rat hippocampal place cells has shown that their firing rate increases when they enter a place field and that their phase of firing relative to the ongoing theta oscillation (7-12 Hz) varies systematically as the rat traverses the place held, a phenomenon termed the theta phase precession. To study the relative contribution of phased-coded and rate-coded information, we reconstructed the animal's position on a linear track using spikes recorded simultaneously from 38 hippocampal neurons. Two previous studies of this kind found no evidence that phase information substantially improves reconstruction accuracy. We have found that reconstruction is improved provided epochs with large, systematic errors are first excluded. With this condition, use of both phase and rate information improves the reconstruction accuracy by >43% as compared with the use of rare information alone. Furthermore, it becomes possible to predict the rat's position on a 204-cm track with very high accuracy (error of