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Hebrew University
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Schedule
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
12:00 AM America/New_York
Recording provided by the organiser.
Domain
NeuroscienceHost
van Vreeswijk TNS
Duration
70 minutes
In the past decade evidence has accumulated in favor of the hypothesis that multiple sub-networks in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) are characterized by low-dimensional, continuous attractor dynamics. Much has been learned about the joint activity of grid cells within a module (a module consists of grid cells that share a common grid spacing), but little is known about the interactions between them. Under typical conditions of spatial exploration in which sensory cues are abundant, all grid-cells in the MEC represent the animal’s position in space and their joint activity lies on a two-dimensional manifold. However, if the grid cells in a single module mechanistically constitute independent attractor networks, then under conditions in which salient sensory cues are absent, errors could accumulate in the different modules in an uncoordinated manner. Such uncoordinated errors would give rise to catastrophic readout errors when attempting to decode position from the joint grid-cell activity. I will discuss recent theoretical works from our group, in which we explored different mechanisms that could impose coordination in the different modules. One of these mechanisms involves coordination with the hippocampus and must be set up such that it operates across multiple spatial maps that represent different environments. The other mechanism is internal to the entorhinal cortex and independent of the hippocampus.
Yoram Burak
Hebrew University
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