Topic: hippocampal representation

The hippocampal representation of space can change on a time scale of minutes as a result of goal learning. However, the link between behaviour performance and the representation of other variables in the hippocampus is less clear, especially at longer time scales. To investigate this, we recorded the activity of hippocampal CA1 neurons of rats using in vivo electrophysiology, as they learned a space-context association task over the course of 5 days. To assess the representation of different task-related variables such as position, reward, movement direction or context in the population activ