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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2016

Place Cell Networks in Pre-weanling Rats Show Associative Memory Properties from the Onset of Exploratory Behavior.

L Muessig, J Hauser, T J Wills, F Cacucci

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Developmental trajectory of episodic-like memory in rats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022
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  6. The Ontogeny of Hippocampus-Dependent Memories.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  9. Place and Grid Cells in a Loop: Implications for Memory Function and Spatial Coding.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017
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  10. Hippocampal Remapping and Its Entorhinal Origin.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017
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4 authors.

L MuessigDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology.
J HauserDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology.
T J WillsDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK.
F CacucciDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/I021221/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Place cells are hippocampal pyramidal cells that are active when an animal visits a restricted area of the environment, and collectively their activity constitutes a neural representation of space. Place cell populations in the adult rat hippocampus display fundamental properties consistent with an associative memory network: the ability to 1) generate new and distinct spatial firing patterns when encountering novel spatial contexts or changes in sensory input ("remapping") and 2) reinstate previously stored firing patterns when encountering a familiar context, including on the basis of an incomplete/degraded set of sensory cues ("pattern completion"). To date, it is unknown when these spatial memory responses emerge during brain development. Here, we show that, from the age of first exploration (postnatal day 16) onwards, place cell populations already exhibit these key features: they generate new representations upon exposure to a novel context and can reactivate familiar representations on the basis of an incomplete set of sensory cues. These results demonstrate that, as early as exploratory behaviors emerge, and despite the absence of an adult-like grid cell network, the developing hippocampus processes incoming sensory information as an associative memory network.

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AssociationAction PotentialsAnimalsCA1 Region, HippocampalElectrodes, ImplantedExploratory BehaviorLactationMaleMemoryPlace CellsRatsRecognition, PsychologySpace Perceptiondevelopmenthippocampusmemoryplace cell

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PMCPMC4961032

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