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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Neuronal signature of spatial decision-making during navigation by freely moving rats by using calcium imaging.

Francesco Gobbo, Rufus Mitchell-Heggs, Dorothy Tse, Meera Al Omrani, Patrick A Spooner, Simon R Schultz, Richard G M Morris

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Intrinsic Diversity in Odor-Evoked Calcium Rises acrossThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  12. Neuronal signature of spatial decision-making during navigation by freely moving rats by using calcium imaging.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Francesco GobboCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Neuroscience, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8331-929X
Rufus Mitchell-HeggsCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Neuroscience, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6303-0467
Dorothy TseCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Neuroscience, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK.
Meera Al OmraniMSc Program in Integrative Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK.
Patrick A SpoonerCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Neuroscience, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK.
Simon R SchultzDepartment of Bioengineering and Centre for Neurotechnology, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6794-5813
Richard G M MorrisCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Neuroscience, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8661-1520

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A challenge in spatial memory is understanding how place cell firing contributes to decision-making in navigation. A spatial recency task was created in which freely moving rats first became familiar with a spatial context over several days and thereafter were required to encode and then selectively recall one of three specific locations within it that was chosen to be rewarded that day. Calcium imaging was used to record from more than 1,000 cells in area CA1 of the hippocampus of five rats during the exploration, sample, and choice phases of the daily task. The key finding was that neural activity in the startbox rose steadily in the short period prior to entry to the arena and that this selective population cell firing was predictive of the daily changing goal on correct trials but not on trials in which the animals made errors. Single-cell and population activity measures converged on the idea that prospective coding of neural activity can be involved in navigational decision-making.

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Place CellsSpatial NavigationAnimalsCalciumHippocampusNeuronsProspective StudiesRatsCalciumhippocampusplace cellsspatial navigation

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PMID36279456
PMCPMC9636941

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