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Rodent hippocampal place cell activity can be journey-dependent, firing in a location only when the animal takes a particular path leading to or from that location. Alternatively, place cell activity can be journey-independent, firing irrespective of th...

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From miniature human brains derived from stem cells to a new class of agonists to treat opioid use disorder, the science presented at Neuroscience 2017 demonstrated a breadth of research and innovation taking place around the world.

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Are patterns of coactivity of hippocampal neurons selected at random, or is there a propensity for some cells to exhibit strong correlations over many different experiences? This question has been the subject of controversy for several decades. Most studies have been performed in one or a few rather small environments in which the sample of the possible state space of the network is small. CA1 pyramidal cell activity was recorded while rats walked down and back along a long (13m x 2m) corridor. Few locations were visited more than once. As predicted by the random allocation model, the variance of the distribution of firing rate correlations became compressed around zero as compared to typical periods of repetitive track running. Moreover, the distribution of mean firing rates became significantly less sparse, again in agreement with the random model. This suggests that synaptic weight vectors of CA1 pyramidal cells are essentially uncorrelated. The degree of memory trace reactivation (Wilson and McNaughton...