The grid code for ordered experience

Autor: Marielena Sosa, Elizabeth A. Buffalo, Jon W Rueckemann, Lisa M. Giocomo
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Nat Rev Neurosci
ISSN: 1471-0048
1471-003X
DOI: 10.1038/s41583-021-00499-9
Popis: Entorhinal cortical grid cells fire in a periodic pattern that tiles space, which is suggestive of a spatial coordinate system. However, irregularities in the grid pattern as well as responses of grid cells in contexts other than spatial navigation have presented a challenge to existing models of entorhinal function. In this Perspective, we propose that hippocampal input provides a key informative drive to the grid network in both spatial and non-spatial circumstances, particularly around salient events. We build on previous models in which neural activity propagates through the entorhinal-hippocampal network in time. This temporal contiguity in network activity points to temporal order as a necessary characteristic of representations generated by the hippocampal formation. We advocate that interactions in the entorhinal-hippocampal loop build a topological representation that is rooted in the temporal order of experience. In this way, the structure of grid cell firing supports a learned topology rather than a rigid coordinate frame that is bound to measurements of the physical world.
Databáze: OpenAIRE