The Role of Place and Grid Cells in Human Spatial Navigation and Memory

位置和网格细胞在人类空间导航和记忆中的作用

• 批准号: 9497608
• 负责人: Joshua Jacobs
• 金额: $ 46.36万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-17 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9497608
• 关键词: 3-Dimensional; Animal Model; Animals; Appearance; Behavior; Brain; Cells; Code; Cognition; Collaborations; Complex; Computers; Data; Data Aggregation; Data Set; Databases; Environment; Epilepsy; Floor; Goals; Handedness; Hippocampus (Brain); Human; Implanted Electrodes; Individual; Knowledge; Learning; Left; Lesion; Life; Location; Maps; Medial; Memory; Modeling; Nature; Neurons; Neurosciences; Patients; Pattern; Persons; Phase; Physiology; Play; Probability; Property; Research; Rodent; Role; Scheme; Site; System; Temporal Lobe; Testing; Theta Rhythm; Travel; Uncertainty; Work; cell cortex; data sharing; entorhinal cortex; experimental study; imaging study; improved; insight; memory process; neurotransmission; public health relevance; relating to nervous system; research study; spatial memory; success; support network; theories; virtual; way finding

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Spatial navigation and learning is a critical part of life for humans and animals. Our experiments examine how spatial knowledge is represented by individual cells in the human medial temporal lobe. We test the hypothesis that human navigation is supported by networks of place and grid cells, each of which help encode a person's location in a spatial environment by activating at individual locations and groups of locations, respectively. We probe the functional roles of grid and place cells in human spatial navigation and memory by directly recording the activity of these cells from epilepsy patients performing a computer virtual-navigation task. Specific Aims one and four of our work test whether theories of grid and place cells from animal models are relevant for humans. First, we probe the properties of these cells, and their interactions with neuronal oscillations, by conducting a new experiment that is optimized to reveal the human neural representation of space. We will test whether human place and grid cells are most prominent to the right hemisphere, consistent with the classic finding that human spatial processing is right lateralized. Our second and third Specific Aims probe grid and place cells in more complex navigation tasks. Here we test for new neural coding patterns beyond those found in animals. We will test whether place and grid cells are involved in transferring spatial knowledge between related environments and in representing spatial information in outside of active navigation. Our research studies are likely to yield insights into the neural signals that allow humans to navigate and they also have implications for revealing a broader understanding of human memory.