I started my thesis wanting to study memory in the hippocampus, inspired in part by Brenda Milner & Wilder Penfield. I quickly learned the complexity of this story, with conversation over the primacy of spatial versus non-spatial mnemonic function in the hippocampus 2/
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It's difficult to study spatial and nonspatial activity in single neurons (but see great expts by
@SuthanaLab,@ArneEkstrom1,@neurojosh,@QasimEtal,@KahanaMichael). For a new approach, we trained monkeys to complete two behavioral tasks in a single VR envt. 3/Prikaži ovu nit -
One task required just cue-guided navigation, inspired by classic studies of rodents foraging for sugar pellets in an open arena https://youtu.be/aWvheMzxMJo 4/
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Subjects also completed an Associative memory task in the same environment, which required learning a new set of context-dependent object values every day https://youtu.be/RHx9Lw65oDw 5/
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Figs 1 & 2 of the paper show single-neuron changes in spatial selectivity across tasks. In Fig. 3, we ask whether coding of spatial position generalized across tasks. 6/pic.twitter.com/X2MRecqo80
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The ensemble could support decoding of position in the maze in each task, but the code for space did not generalize across tasks. There are important nuances and implications here, see the paper for full detail. 7/pic.twitter.com/o9YmpyAoT9
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The lack of stable coding across tasks was striking in the portions of the maze that were especially relevant in the Associative memory task. So, we next examined non-spatial, task-specific activity during the Associative memory task. We looked for perceptual & mnemonic coding 8/
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We found that hippocampal neurons encoded objects, and interaction with context as both perceptual and mnemonic representations. Neural activity could be used to read out specific trial type in the Associative memory task as well. 9/pic.twitter.com/9XqVqP7Ulx
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We showed that hippocampal neurons could be used to decode space in primates during virtual navigation. However, representation of space is not stable across tasks. Task-specific activity that looks spatial can be tuned to nonspatial parameters that are relevant for behavior. 10/
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So what does this mean for our understanding HPC function? ATM, I believe that neuropsychological theories (memory, space) contain less explanatory power than computational theories (cc
@StefanoFusi2@neuro_kim@jcrwhittington@behrenstimb@ProfData@Rob_Mok@tyrell_turing) 11/Prikaži ovu nit -
I could never thank my co-authors enough for their work on this. Ben is an incredibly thorough scientist. Guillaume is a programming genius. Lyndon is a mathematical wizard. This couldn't be possible without them, and funding by
@NSERC_CRSNG@CIHR_IRSC@mcgillu@WesternU@NSF 12/Prikaži ovu nit -
There's more to this story that we're still working on, so stay tuned. Cc also
@Neuro_Physics@MemoryLab@eabuffalo@jacobbellmund@doellerlab@perpl_lab@jaaanaru@dunmao_@mjaztwit@roozbeh_kiani@jjsakon@andpru 13/Prikaži ovu nit
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