ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2018
Space and Time: The Hippocampus as a Sequence Generator.
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- It's not just the phase: Frequency-dependent tuning of neuronal firing.PLoS biology · 2026Article
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- Rapid formation of non-spatial hippocampal representations consistent with behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity is modulated by entorhinal input.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Neural Representation of Exogenous and Endogenous Temporal Expectations Based on fMRI.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2026Article
- Neural population dynamics and temporal context cells in macaque medial parietal cortex support temporal order memory.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- When dreams feel real: the MÖBIUS model.Communications biology · 2026Review
- Spaces and sequences in the hippocampus: a homological perspective.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Distinct neural signatures of hippocampal population dynamics during locomotion-in-place.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
Neural computations are often compared to instrument-measured distance or duration, and such relationships are interpreted by a human observer. However, neural circuits do not depend on human-made instruments but perform computations relative to an internally defined rate-of-change. While neuronal correlations with external measures, such as distance or duration, can be observed in spike rates or other measures of neuronal activity, what matters for the brain is how such activity patterns are utilized by downstream neural observers. We suggest that hippocampal operations can be described by the sequential activity of neuronal assemblies and their internally defined rate of change without resorting to the concept of space or time.
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