Hippocampal Place Fields Relevance to Learning and Memory

by Mizumori, Sheri J.Y.

• ISBN13: 9780195323245
• ISBN10: 0195323246
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Data from neuropsychological and animal research suggest that the hippocampus plays a pivotal role in two relatively different areas: active navigation, as well as episodic learning and memory. Recent studies have attempted to bridge these disparate accounts of hippocampal function by emphasizing the role that hippocampal place cells may play in processing the spatial contextual information that defines situations in which learned behaviors occur. A number of established laboratories are currently offering complementary interpretations of place fields, and this book will present the first common platform for them. Bringing together research from behavioral, genetic, physiological, computational, and neural-systems perspectives will provide a thorough understanding of the extent to which studying place-field properties has informed our understanding of the neural mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory. Hippocampal Place Fields: Relevance to Learning and Memory will serve as a valuable reference for everyone interested in hippocampal function.

Table of Contents

Preface

A Place for Place Cells in Hippocampal-dependent Memory?

Sheri Mizumori: Historical Perspective: Place Cells in Ann Arbor and Brooklyn

The Hippocampus and Context Revisited

A Context for Hippocampal Place Cells During Learning

Context-dependent Firing of Hippocampal Place Cells: Does it Underlie Memory?

The Place Cells - Cognitive Map or Memory System?

Context-specific Versus Context-Invariant Spatial Coding in the Hippocampal Formation: Implications for Episodic Memory

The roles of Hippocampal Subfields in Processing Spatial Contexts of Events: Neurophysiological and Behavioral Analyses

Plasticity, Attention, and the Stabilization of Hippocampal Representations

What do Place Cells Tell us about Learning to Associate and Learning to Segregate?

Do Place Cells Guide Spatial Behaviors?

Place Cells Identify Hippocampus with Location-specific Construction of Mental Images

Hippocampal Neuronal Activity and Memory: Should we Still be Talking about Place Cells?

Place-differential Neural Responses in the Monkey Hippocampal Formation During Real and Virtual Navigation

Spatial View Cells in the Primate Hippocampus, and Memory

Learning, Memory, and the Monkey Hippocampus

Entorhinal Grid Cells and the Neural Basis of Navigation

Neocortical Influences on Hippocampal Place Cells

Spatial Learning and the Selectivity of Hippocampal Place Fields: Modulation of by Dopamine

Spatial Decisions and Neuronal Activity in Hippocampal Projection Zones in Prefrontal Cortex and Striatum

Hippocampal Theta Rhythm and Memory-guided Behavior

Network Analysis of the Significance of Hippocampal Subfields

Storage of the Distance Between Place Cell Firing Fields in the Strength of Plastic Synapses with a Novel Learning Rule

Hippocampal Place Cells as a Window into Age-related Memory Impairments

Aging Ensembles: Circuit Contributions to Memory Deficits

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