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ArticleFrontiers in computational neuroscience2018

Hippocampal Neurogenesis Reduces the Dimensionality of Sparsely Coded Representations to Enhance Memory Encoding.

Anthony J DeCostanzo, Chi Chung Alan Fung, Tomoki Fukai

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Article in Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anthony J DeCostanzoLaboratory for Neural Coding and Brain Computing, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Saitama, Japan.
Chi Chung Alan FungLaboratory for Neural Coding and Brain Computing, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Saitama, Japan.
Tomoki FukaiLaboratory for Neural Coding and Brain Computing, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Saitama, Japan.
RIKEN Center for Brain Science · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adult neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) of mammals is known to contribute to memory encoding in many tasks. The DG also exhibits exceptionally sparse activity compared to other systems, however, whether sparseness and neurogenesis interact during memory encoding remains elusive. We implement a novel learning rule consistent with experimental findings of competition among adult-born neurons in a supervised multilayer feedforward network trained to discriminate between contexts. From this rule, the DG population partitions into neuronal ensembles each of which is biased to represent one of the contexts. This corresponds to a low dimensional representation of the contexts, whereby the fastest dimensionality reduction is achieved in sparse models. We then modify the rule, showing that equivalent representations and performance are achieved when neurons compete for synaptic stability rather than neuronal survival. Our results suggest that competition for stability in sparse models is well-suited to developing ensembles of what may be called memory engram cells.

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dimensionality reductionfeed-forward neural networkhippocampusneuromorphic computingpattern separationsynaptic plasticitysynaptic pruningsynaptic turnover

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PMID30666194
PMCPMC6330828
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