Reactivation of experience-dependent cell assembly patterns in the hippocampus
- O'Neill, Joseph
- Senior, Timothy J
- Allen, Kevin
- Huxter, John R
- Csicsvari, Jozsef
DOIAbstract
The hippocampus is thought to be involved in episodic memory formation by reactivating traces of waking experience during sleep. Indeed, the joint firing of spatially tuned pyramidal cells encoding nearby places recur during sleep. We found that the sleep cofiring of rat CA1 pyramidal cells encoding similar places increased relative to the sleep session before exploration. This cofiring increase depended on the number of times that cells fired together with short latencies (<50 ms) during exploration, and was strongest between cells representing the most visited places. This is indicative of a Hebbian learning rule in which changes in firing associations between cells are determined by the number of waking coincident firing events. In contr...
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