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CELL REPORTS
Volume 22, Issue 12, Pages 3152-3159Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.02.082
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- Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship
- Walter F. Heiligenberg Professorship
- NIH [R01 NS086947, R01 NS084324, R01 MH100349]
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The high storage capacity of the episodic memory system relies on distinct representations for events that are separated in time and space. The spatial component of these computations includes the formation of independent maps by hippocampal place cells across environments, referred to as global remapping. Such remapping is thought to emerge by the switching of input patterns from specialized spatially selective cells in medial entorhinal cortex (mEC), such as grid and border cells. Although it has been shown that acute manipulations of mEC firing patterns are sufficient for inducing hippocampal remapping, it remains unknown whether specialized spatial mEC inputs are necessary for the reorganization of hippocampal spatial representations. Here, we examined remapping in rats without mEC input to the hippocampus and found that highly distinct spatial maps emerged rapidly in every individual rat. Our data suggest that hippocampal spatial computations do not depend on inputs from specialized cell types in mEC.
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