期刊
ENEURO
卷 8, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0195-21.2021
关键词
adult neurogenesis; fear conditioning; hippocampus; spatial memory
资金
- Ministry of Education, Singapore [2018T1-002-053, MOE2015-T2-2-035, MOE2017-T3-1-002]
- National Medical Research Council, Ministry of Health, Singapore [NMRC/OFIRG/0046/2017]
- European Research Council [208132]
- James S. McDonnell Foundation
- Human Frontier Science Programme long-term fellowship
- European Research Council (ERC) [208132] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
This study investigated the different modalities of memory strength in mouse behavior. The results showed that after ablation of immature neurons in the dentate gyrus, there were changes in behavior performance in hippocampus-dependent memory tasks, indicating potential reflection of different modalities of memory strength.
The term memory strength generally refers to how well one remembers something. But more precisely it contains multiple modalities, such as how easily, how accurately, how confidently and how vividly we remember it. In human, these modalities of memory strength are dissociable. In this study, we asked whether we can isolate a behavioral component that is dissociable from others in hippocampus-dependent memory tasks in mice, which potentially reflect a modality of memory strength. Using a virus-mediated inducible method, we ablated immature neurons in the dentate gyrus in mice after we trained the mice with hippocampus-dependent memory tasks normally. In memory retrieval tests, these ablated mice initially showed intact performance. However, the ablated mice ceased learned behavior prematurely within a trial compared with control mice. In addition, the ablated mice showed shorter duration of individual episodes of learned behavior. Both affected behavioral measurements point to persistence of learned behavior. Thus, the effect of the postlearning manipulation showed dissociation between initial performance and persistence of learned behavior. These two behavioral components are likely to reflect different brain functions and be mediated by separate mechanisms, which might represent different modalities of memory strength. These simple dissociable measurements in widely used behavioral paradigms would be useful to understand detailed mechanisms underlying the expression of learned behavior and potentially different modalities of memory strength in mice. We also discuss a potential role that immature neurons in the dentate gyrus may play in persistence of learned behavior.
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