Topic: neuronal ensemble

Replay, the sequential reactivation of a neuronal ensemble, is thought to play a central role in the hippocampus during the consolidation of a recent experience into a long-term memory. Following a contextual change (e.g. entering a novel environment), hippocampal place cells typically modulate their in-field firing rate and shift the position of their place field, providing a rate and place representation for the behavioral episode, respectively. However, replay has been largely defined by only the latter- based on the fidelity of sequential activity across neighboring place fields. Here we s

Associative learning is crucial for adapting to environmental changes. Interactions among neuronal populations involving the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) in rodents are proposed to regulate associative memory. However, how these neuronal populations store and process information about the association remains unclear. Here we developed a pipeline for longitudinal two-photon imaging and computational dissection of neural population activities in male mouse dmPFC during fear-conditioning procedures, enabling us to detect learning-dependent changes in the dmPFC network topology. After co

Corticocollicular (CC) projections arise in deep layers of the auditory cortex and modulate upstream auditory information in the inferior colliculus (IC), forming feedback loops. They are crucially involved in auditory-related learning and frequency response modulations in auditory brainstem. Through widefield and 2-photon calcium imaging in awake mice we prior were able to show that layer 5 CC neurons display only a subtle topographic organization when compared to other layer 5 neuron types (Schmitt et al., 2023, Front Neural Circuit). However, these data were acquired under passive listening