Neuronal ensembles: Building blocks of neural circuits

R Yuste, R Cossart, E Yaksi - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Neuronal ensembles, defined as groups of neurons displaying recurring patterns of
coordinated activity, represent an intermediate functional level between individual neurons …

[HTML][HTML] Mystery of the Memory Engram: History, current knowledge, and unanswered questions

MR Lopez, SMH Wasberg, CM Gagliardi… - Neuroscience & …, 2024 - Elsevier
The quest to understand the memory engram has intrigued humans for centuries. Recent
technological advances, including genetic labeling, imaging, optogenetic and chemogenetic …

Representational drift as a result of implicit regularization

A Ratzon, D Derdikman, O Barak - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Recent studies show that, even in constant environments, the tuning of single neurons
changes over time in a variety of brain regions. This representational drift has been …

[HTML][HTML] Hippocampal place code plasticity in CA1 requires postsynaptic membrane fusion

MH Plitt, K Kaganovsky, TC Südhof, LM Giocomo - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rapid delivery of glutamate receptors to the postsynaptic membrane via vesicle fusion is a
central component of synaptic plasticity. However, it is unknown how this process supports …

Transformation of spatial representations along hippocampal circuits

B Gandit, L Posani, CL Zhang, S Saha, C Ortiz… - iScience, 2024 - cell.com
The hippocampus is thought to provide the brain with a cognitive map of the external world
by processing various types of spatial information. To understand how essential spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Representational drift in barrel cortex is receptive field dependent

A Alisha, V Bettina, P Simon - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cortical populations often exhibit changes in activity even when behavior is stable. How
behavioral stability is maintained in the face of such 'representational drift'remains unclear …

Divergent Recruitment of Developmentally-Defined Neuronal Ensembles Supports Memory Dynamics

VA Kveim, L Salm, T Ulmer, S Kandler, F Imhof… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Memories are dynamic constructs whose properties change with time and experience. The
biological mechanisms underpinning these dynamics remain elusive, particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Intrinsic dynamics of randomly clustered networks generate place fields and preplay of novel environments

J Breffle, H Germaine, JD Shin, SP Jadhav, P Miller - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
During both sleep and awake immobility, hippocampal place cells reactivate time-
compressed versions of sequences representing recently experienced trajectories in a …

A population code for spatial representation in the larval zebrafish telencephalon

C Yang, L Mammen, B Kim, M Li, DN Robson, JM Li - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The vertebrate telencephalon is the site of complex cognitive processes, such as spatial
cognition. The larval zebrafish telencephalon is a compact circuit of only~ 10,000 neurons …

Representational drift in barrel cortex is receptive field dependent

A Ahmed, B Voelcker, SP Peron - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Cortical populations often exhibit changes in activity even when behavior is stable. How
behavioral stability is maintained in the face of such" representational drift" remains unclear …