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ReviewHippocampus2020

The role of replay and theta sequences in mediating hippocampal-prefrontal interactions for memory and cognition.

Mark C Zielinski, Wenbo Tang, Shantanu P Jadhav

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Review in Hippocampus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Prioritizing replay when future goals are unknown.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  8. Hippocampal Place Cell Sequences Are Impaired in a Rat Model of Fragile X Syndrome.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mark C ZielinskiGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02453.ORCID 0000-0002-6950-6689
Wenbo TangGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02453.ORCID 0000-0003-4361-6705
Shantanu P JadhavNeuroscience Program, Department of Psychology and Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02453.ORCID 0000-0001-5821-0551

Funding

Role of physiological patterns in hippocampal-prefrontal interactionsR01MH112661 · NIMH · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI Shantanu P Jadhav · 2017 to 2026
$3.6M
Undergraduate and Graduate Training in Computational Neuroscience R90DA033463 · NIDA · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI MILLER, PAUL · 2011 to 2020
$2.0M
NIDA NIH HHS R90 DA033463NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH112661
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sequential activity is seen in the hippocampus during multiple network patterns, prominently as replay activity during both awake and sleep sharp-wave ripples (SWRs), and as theta sequences during active exploration. Although various mnemonic and cognitive functions have been ascribed to these hippocampal sequences, evidence for these proposed functions remains primarily phenomenological. Here, we briefly review current knowledge about replay events and theta sequences in spatial memory tasks. We reason that in order to gain a mechanistic and causal understanding of how these patterns influence memory and cognitive processing, it is important to consider how these sequences influence activity in other regions, and in particular, the prefrontal cortex, which is crucial for memory-guided behavior. For spatial memory tasks, we posit that hippocampal-prefrontal interactions mediated by replay and theta sequences play complementary and overlapping roles at different stages in learning, supporting memory encoding and retrieval, deliberative decision making, planning, and guiding future actions. This framework offers testable predictions for future physiology and closed-loop feedback inactivation experiments for specifically targeting hippocampal sequences as well as coordinated prefrontal activity in different network states, with the potential to reveal their causal roles in memory-guided behavior.

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AnimalsBrain WavesCognitionHippocampusHumansMemoryPrefrontal CortexSleepTheta Rhythmsharp-wave ripplessleepspatial memorytheta oscillations

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PMID29251801
PMCPMC6005707

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