Cell Reports,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
42(10), P. 113142 - 113142
Published: Sept. 25, 2023
Hippocampus
place
cell
discharge
is
temporally
unreliable
across
seconds
and
days,
fields
are
multimodal,
suggesting
an
"ensemble
cofiring"
spatial
coding
hypothesis
with
manifold
dynamics
that
does
not
require
reliable
tuning,
in
contrast
to
hypotheses
based
on
field
(spatial
tuning)
stability.
We
imaged
mouse
CA1
(cornu
ammonis
1)
ensembles
two
environments
three
weeks
evaluate
these
hypotheses.
While
"remap,"
being
more
distinct
between
than
within
environments,
coactivity
relationships
generally
change
less.
Decoding
location
environment
from
1-s
ensemble
location-specific
activity
effective
improves
experience.
cell-pair
also
experience,
even
after
removing
tuning.
Discriminating
relies
crucially
the
cells
most
anti-coactive
because
internally
organized
a
low-dimensional
of
non-linear
intermittently
reregisters
according
anti-cofiring
subpopulation
activity.
Many
cortical
network
models
use
recurrent
coupling
strong
enough
to
require
inhibition
for
stabilization.
Yet
it
has
been
experimentally
unclear
whether
inhibition-stabilized
(ISN)
describe
function
well
across
areas
and
states.
Here,
we
test
several
ISN
predictions,
including
the
counterintuitive
(paradoxical)
suppression
of
inhibitory
firing
in
response
optogenetic
stimulation.
We
find
clear
evidence
operation
mouse
visual,
somatosensory,
motor
cortex.
Simple
two-population
data
let
us
quantify
strength.
Although
some
predict
a
non-ISN
transition
with
increasingly
sensory
stimuli,
effects
without
stimulation
even
during
light
anesthesia.
Additionally,
average
paradoxical
result
only
transgenic,
not
viral,
opsin
expression
parvalbumin
(PV)-positive
neurons;
theory
show
this
is
consistent
operation.
Taken
together,
these
results
stabilization
are
common
features
Nature Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
27(1), P. 137 - 147
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Abstract
Recurrent
cortical
activity
sculpts
visual
perception
by
refining,
amplifying
or
suppressing
input.
However,
the
rules
that
govern
influence
of
recurrent
remain
enigmatic.
We
used
ensemble-specific
two-photon
optogenetics
in
mouse
cortex
to
isolate
impact
from
external
found
spatial
arrangement
and
feature
preference
stimulated
ensemble
neighboring
neurons
jointly
determine
net
effect
activity.
Photoactivation
these
ensembles
drives
suppression
all
cells
beyond
30
µm
but
uniformly
activation
closer
similarly
tuned
cells.
In
nonsimilarly
cells,
compact,
cotuned
drive
suppression,
while
diffuse,
activation.
Computational
modeling
suggests
highly
local
excitatory
connectivity
selective
convergence
onto
inhibitory
explain
effects.
Our
findings
reveal
a
straightforward
logic
which
space
their
on
Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
28(7), P. 614 - 627
Published: April 4, 2024
Working
memory
(WM)
is
a
fundamental
aspect
of
cognition.
WM
maintenance
classically
thought
to
rely
on
stable
patterns
neural
activities.
However,
recent
evidence
shows
that
population
activities
during
undergo
dynamic
variations
before
settling
into
pattern.
Although
this
has
been
difficult
explain
theoretically,
network
models
optimized
for
typically
also
exhibit
such
dynamics.
Here,
we
examine
versus
coding
in
data,
classical
models,
and
task-optimized
networks.
We
review
principled
mathematical
reasons
why
do
not,
while
naturally
coding.
suggest
an
update
our
understanding
maintenance,
which
computational
feature
rather
than
epiphenomenon.
NeuroImage,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
221, P. 117141 - 117141
Published: July 12, 2020
Many
studies
have
identified
the
role
of
localized
and
distributed
cognitive
functionality
by
mapping
either
local
task-related
activity
or
functional
connectivity
(FC).
However,
few
directly
explored
relationship
between
a
brain
region's
task
its
FC.
Here
we
systematically
evaluated
differential
contributions
FC
changes
to
identify
processes
across
cortical
hierarchy.
We
found
that
multiple
tasks,
magnitude
regional
task-evoked
was
high
in
unimodal
areas,
but
low
transmodal
areas.
In
contrast,
task-state
significantly
reduced
areas
relative
This
revealed
strong
negative
regions
associated
with
previously
reported
principal
gradient
macroscale
organization.
Moreover,
this
dissociation
corresponded
hierarchical
differences
intrinsic
timescale
estimated
from
resting-state
fMRI
region
myelin
content
structural
MRI.
Together,
our
results
contribute
growing
literature
illustrating
representing
processes.