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ArticleeLife2017

Learning multiple variable-speed sequences in striatum via cortical tutoring.

James M Murray, G Sean Escola

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Controlling Spatio-Temporal Sequences of Neural Activity by Local Synaptic Changes.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  8. Recall tempo of Hebbian sequences depends on the interplay of Hebbian kernel with tutor signal timing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

James M MurrayCenter for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3706-4895
G Sean EscolaCenter for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0645-1964

Funding

The internal states of neural circuits: data analysis, modeling, and diseaseDP5OD019897 · OD · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ESCOLA, GARY SEAN · 2014 to 2018
$2.0M
CRCNS: Refining computational models of motor sequence learning and executionR01NS105349 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ESCOLA, GARY SEAN, OLVECZKY, BENCE P · 2017 to 2021
$1.7M
NIH HHS DP5 OD019897NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS105349
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sparse, sequential patterns of neural activity have been observed in numerous brain areas during timekeeping and motor sequence tasks. Inspired by such observations, we construct a model of the striatum, an all-inhibitory circuit where sequential activity patterns are prominent, addressing the following key challenges: (i) obtaining control over temporal rescaling of the sequence speed, with the ability to generalize to new speeds; (ii) facilitating flexible expression of distinct sequences via selective activation, concatenation, and recycling of specific subsequences; and (iii) enabling the biologically plausible learning of sequences, consistent with the decoupling of learning and execution suggested by lesion studies showing that cortical circuits are necessary for learning, but that subcortical circuits are sufficient to drive learned behaviors. The same mechanisms that we describe can also be applied to circuits with both excitatory and inhibitory populations, and hence may underlie general features of sequential neural activity pattern generation in the brain.

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LearningAnimalsHumansModels, NeurologicalNerve NetVentral Striatumbasal gangliacircuit modelsmotor sequencesneurosciencenone

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PMID28481200
PMCPMC5446244

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