Publication

Subtle visual change in a virtual environment induces heterogeneous remapping systematically in CA1 but not CA3
Author
Jhoseph Shin, Hyun-Woo Lee, Seung-Woo Jin and Inah Lee
Year of publication
2022
Publication in journal
Cell Reports
Vol
41(11)
File
Shin et al Cell Reports 2022.pdf (5.5M) 86회 다운로드 DATE : 2022-12-15 09:04:13
Environmental change may lead to new memories or modify old ones, but the underlying neural mechanisms are largely unknown. We recorded hippocampal place cells simultaneously from CA1 and CA3 in a virtual reality environment. Compared to CA1, place cells in CA3 were more tolerant of individual landmark changes but underwent orthogonal changes to code distinctively different environments. As visual noise (virtual fog) was introduced to a visually enriched environment, place cells in CA1 split into two subpopulations: In one, place cells maintained their field locations while changing their firing rates to reflect sensory changes; in one, place cells exhibited global remapping in response to the contextual change. In contrast, place cells in CA3 exhibited mainly rate remapping under the same conditions. Our results suggest that CA1 may simultaneously represent heterogeneous maps of the same environment when subtle visual noise induces both sensory and contextual changes.