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ArticleeLife2016

Dissociated sequential activity and stimulus encoding in the dorsomedial striatum during spatial working memory.

Hessameddin Akhlaghpour, Joost Wiskerke, Jung Yoon Choi, Joshua P Taliaferro, Jennifer Au, Ilana B Witten

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Hessameddin AkhlaghpourPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, United States.
Joost WiskerkePrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, United States.
Jung Yoon ChoiPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, United States.
Joshua P TaliaferroPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6051-8635
Jennifer AuPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, United States.
Ilana B WittenPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0548-2160

Funding

Therapeutic plasticity: a novel paradigm for treating addictionDP2DA035149 · NIDA · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI WITTEN, ILANA · 2012 to 2012
$2.4M
Dissecting the neural circuitry for spatial working memoryR01MH106689 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI WITTEN, ILANA · 2015 to 2019
$2.0M
NIDA NIH HHS DP2 DA035149NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106689
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several lines of evidence suggest that the striatum has an important role in spatial working memory. The neural dynamics in the striatum have been described in tasks with short delay periods (1-4 s), but remain largely uncharacterized for tasks with longer delay periods. We collected and analyzed single unit recordings from the dorsomedial striatum of rats performing a spatial working memory task with delays up to 10 s. We found that neurons were activated sequentially, with the sequences spanning the entire delay period. Surprisingly, this sequential activity was dissociated from stimulus encoding activity, which was present in the same neurons, but preferentially appeared towards the onset of the delay period. These observations contrast with descriptions of sequential dynamics during similar tasks in other brains areas, and clarify the contribution of the striatum to spatial working memory.

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Memory, Short-TermSpatial MemoryAction PotentialsAnimalsCorpus StriatumNeuronsRatselectrophysiologyneuroscienceratstriatumworking memory

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PMID27636864
PMCPMC5053805

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