Multiple representations in the hippocampus.
Multiple representations in the hippocampus.
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DOI:
10.1002/hipo.450010305
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发表时间:
1991-07-01
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Muller, R U
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作者:
Kubie, J L;Muller, R U
The discovery of place cells (O’Keefe and Dostrovsky, 1971) is the finding that most strongly implicates a spatial processing role for the hippocampus. In this essay we will review evidence that the space represented by the hippocampus is “chunked” into segments called “environments.” This is not a new idea; it was indirectly suggested several times by O’Keefe and Nadel in The Hippocampus LIS 0 Cognirive Mup (1978). A consequence of the notion that the hippocampus represents environments is that the hippocampus stores many environmental representations. only one of which is active at any given time. The bulk of this essay is aimed at stating consequences of the fact that the hippocampus stores (or has access to) multiple environmental representations. Before proceeding, it is useful to make explicit what we mean by an environment. We define an environment as the accessible space of a particular setting together with the cues available for orientation. This definition is consistent with the general experimental strategy of recording from place cells while the rat is in an experimental apparatus that, itself, is within a curtained enclosure.’In such settings, it is relatively easy to demonstrate that place cell firing is determined by the apparatus and other cues within the enclosure (O’Keefe and Conway, 1978; Olton et al., 1978; Muller and Kubie, 1987). For instance, rotations of a set of controlled cues within the curtains produces equal rotations of the spatial firing patterns of place cells (O’Keefe and Conway, 1978). Thus, place cell firing signals the rat’s location with respect to environmental cues and suggests that the rat hippocampus maps the current environment. If an environment is what is mapped, what happens when the rat is put in a second or a third environment ‘! The observed results are quite simple. If the environments are sufficiently different, a “remapping” will occur (O’Keefe and Conway, 1978; Kubie and Ranck, 1984; Muller and Kubie, 1987; Thompson and Best, 1989: Bostock et al., 1991). Remapping has two fundamental features. First, the hippocampal representation of an individual environment makes use of a surprisingly small subset of potential place cells, the “active subset.” The size of the active subset is about 20% of the pyramidal cell population, according to Thompson and Best (1989). Moreover, the subset used in each environment is a