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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 1, 2001, 21(5):1635-1644
Accumulation of Hippocampal Place Fields at the Goal Location in
an Annular Watermaze Task
Stig A.
Hollup1,
Sturla
Molden1,
James G.
Donnett2,
May-Britt
Moser1, and
Edvard I.
Moser1
1 Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway, and 2 Axona
Ltd., St. Albans, Herts AL3 6EU, United Kingdom
To explore the plastic representation of information in spatially
selective hippocampal pyramidal neurons, we made multiple single-unit
recordings in rats trained to find a hidden platform at a constant
location in a hippocampal-dependent annular watermaze task. Hippocampal
pyramidal cells exhibited place-related firing in the watermaze. Place
fields tended to accumulate near the platform, even in probe trials
without immediate escape. The percentage of cells with peak activity
around the hidden platform was more than twice the percentage firing in
equally large areas elsewhere in the arena. The effect was independent
of the actual position of the platform in the room frame. It was
dissociable from ongoing motor behavior and was not related to linear
or angular speed, swim direction, or variation in hippocampal theta
activity. There was no accumulation of firing in any particular region
in rats that were trained with a variable platform location. These
training-dependent effects suggest that regions of particular
behavioral significance may be over-represented in the hippocampal
spatial map, even when these regions are completely unmarked.
Key words:
hippocampus; place cells; learning; memory; recognition; spatial; plasticity; rat
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/2151635-10$05.00/0
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