Topic: spike-triggered average

Hippocampal representations that underlie spatial memory undergo continuous refinement following formation during exploration. Understanding the role of sleep in this process has been challenging because of the inaccessibility of place fields when animals are not actively exploring a maze. Here, we devised a novel Bayesian learning approach based on the spike-triggered average decoded position in ensemble recordings to track dynamically the spatial tuning of individual neurons during offline states in freely moving rats. Measuring these dynamic tunings, we found spatial representations within