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Hippocampal Place Fields: Relevance to Learning and Memory

Sheri J. Y. Mizumori

Abstract

Neuropsychological data and animal research suggest that hippocampus play both a critical role in episodic learning and memory, and an adaptive role during active navigation. Recent studies have attempted to bridge these disparate theories of hippocampal function by emphasizing the role that hippocampal place cells might play in the processing of spatial information that defines situations in which learning occurs. The book evaluates from behavioral, genetic, physiological, computational, and neural systems perspectives the extent to which the study of place-field properties has informed our u ... More

Keywords: animal research, learning, memory, active navigation, place-field properties, hippocampal-dependent memory

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9780195323245
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323245.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Sheri J. Y. Mizumori, Editor
University of Washington

Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Preface: A Place for Place Cells in Hippocampal‐Dependent Memory?

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Historical Perspective: Place Cells in Ann Arbor and Brooklyn

I Place Cells and Spatial Context

1 The Hippocampus and Context Revisited

2 A Context for Hippocampal Place Cells during Learning

3 Context‐Dependent Firing of Hippocampal Place Cells: Does It Underlie Memory?

4 The Place Cells—Cognitive Map or Memory System?

5 Context‐Specific Versus Context‐Invariant Spatial Coding in the Hippocampal Formation: Implications for Episodic Memory

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

7 Plasticity, Attention, and the Stabilization of Hippocampal Representations

8 What Do Place Cells Tell Us about Learning to Associate and Learning to Segregate?

9 Do Place Cells Guide Spatial Behaviors?

10 Place Cells Identify Hippocampus with Location‐Specific Construction of Mental Images

11 Hippocampal Neuronal Activity and Memory: Should We Still Be Talking about Place Cells?

II Primate Hippocampus and Place Representation

12 Place‐Differential Neural Responses in Monkey Hippocampal Formation during Real and Virtual Navigation

13 Spatial View Cells in the Primate Hippocampus, and Memory

14 Learning, Memory, and the Monkey Hippocampus

III Neural Systems Perspective on the Significance of Place Fields

15 Entorhinal Grid Cells and the Neural Basis of Navigation

16 Neocortical Influences on Hippocampal Place Cells

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

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

IV Theoretical Significance of Place Fields

19 Hippocampal Theta Rhythm and Memory‐Guided Behavior

20 Network Analysis of the Significance of Hippocampal Subfields

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

V Place Fields and Age‐Related Changes in Memory

22 Hippocampal Place Cells as a Window into Age‐related Memory Impairments

23 Aging Ensembles: Circuit Contributions to Memory Deficits

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