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ArticleNature neuroscience2021

Flexible modulation of sequence generation in the entorhinal-hippocampal system.

Daniel C McNamee, Kimberly L Stachenfeld, Matthew M Botvinick, Samuel J Gershman

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Article in Nature neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Daniel C McNameeWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK. daniel.c.mcnamee@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9928-4960
Kimberly L StachenfeldGoogle DeepMind, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6936-4257
Matthew M BotvinickGoogle DeepMind, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7758-6896
Samuel J GershmanDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6546-3298

Funding

Wellcome Trust 110257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exploration, consolidation and planning depend on the generation of sequential state representations. However, these algorithms require disparate forms of sampling dynamics for optimal performance. We theorize how the brain should adapt internally generated sequences for particular cognitive functions and propose a neural mechanism by which this may be accomplished within the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit. Specifically, we demonstrate that the systematic modulation along the medial entorhinal cortex dorsoventral axis of grid population input into the hippocampus facilitates a flexible generative process that can interpolate between qualitatively distinct regimes of sequential hippocampal reactivations. By relating the emergent hippocampal activity patterns drawn from our model to empirical data, we explain and reconcile a diversity of recently observed, but apparently unrelated, phenomena such as generative cycling, diffusive hippocampal reactivations and jumping trajectory events.

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Neural Networks, ComputerAnimalsEntorhinal CortexHippocampusHumansNerve Net

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PMID33846626
PMCPMC7610914

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