期刊
HIPPOCAMPUS
卷 16, 期 9, 页码 785-794出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20202
关键词
attractor; oscillation; place cell; rat; theta rhythm
资金
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R01NS020331, R37NS020331] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS020331, R01 NS020331] Funding Source: Medline
The factors that control the spatial tuning of hippocampal neurons are incompletely understood, and there is no generally agreed upon definition of what constitutes a place field. One factor that must be considered is the phenomenon of phase precession. As a rat passes through the place field of a particular hippocampal neuron, its spikes shift to earlier phases of the theta rhythm. Except for the special cases discussed herein, the phase shift never exceeds 360 degrees. Moreover, under conditions in which place field sizes change dynamically, precession rate is tightly coupled with the place field size, suggesting that a single cycle of theta phase precession could be used to define unitary place field boundaries. Theta phase precession implies that the cell assembly of active hippocampal neurons changes systematically over the course of a single theta cycle. A given cell can exhibit more than one place field in a given environment, each field showing the same pattern of 360 degrees of phase precession. The existence of multiple fields implies that one cell can participate in multiple cell assemblies within the same environment. We show here that place fields, defined as a single cycle of phase precession, can overlap spatially, with the result that the cell fires with spikes clustered at two different phases over the theta cycles in which the fields overlap. Thus, the same neuron can participate in different cell assemblies within a single theta cycle. (c) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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