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NEURON
Volume 78, Issue 6, Pages 1090-1101Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.04.015
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- [NIMH MH071702]
- [NIMH MH095297]
- [NIMH MH060013]
- [ONR MURI N00014-10-1-0936]
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Recent studies have reported the existence of hippocampal time cells, neurons that fire at particular moments during periods when behavior and location are relatively constant. However, an alternative explanation of apparent time coding is that hippocampal neurons path integrate to encode the distance an animal has traveled. Here, we examined hippocampal neuronal firing patterns as rats ran in place on a treadmill, thus clamping behavior and location, while we varied the treadmill speed to distinguish time elapsed from distance traveled. Hippocampal neurons were strongly influenced by time and distance, and less so by minor variations in location. Furthermore, the activity of different neurons reflected integration over time and distance to varying extents, with most neurons strongly influenced by both factors and some significantly influenced by only time or distance. Thus, hippocampal neuronal networks captured both the organization of time and distance in a situation where these dimensions dominated an ongoing experience.
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