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University of Iowa, USA
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
10:00 AM America/New_York
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Medium-spiny neurons (MSNs) in the striatum are required for interval timing, or the estimation of the time over several seconds via a motor response. We and others have shown that striatal MSNs can encode the duration of temporal intervals via time-dependent ramping activity, progressive monotonic changes in firing rate preceding behaviorally salient points in time. Here, we investigated how timing-related activity within striatal ensembles changes with experience. We leveraged a rodent-optimized interval timing task in which mice ‘switch’ response ports after an amount of time has passed without reward. We report three main results. First, we found that the proportion of MSNs exhibiting time-dependent modulations of firing rate increased after 10 days of task overtraining. Second, temporal decoding by MSN ensembles increased with experience and was largely driven by time-related ramping activity. Finally, we found that time-related ramping activity generalized across both correct and error trials. These results enhance our understanding of striatal temporal processing by demonstrating that time-dependent activity within MSN ensembles evolves with experience and is dissociable from motor- and reward-related processes.
Austin Bruce
University of Iowa, USA
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