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- Title
The role of replay and theta sequences in mediating hippocampal‐prefrontal interactions for memory and cognition.
- Authors
Zielinski, Mark C.; Tang, Wenbo; Jadhav, Shantanu P.
- Abstract
Sequential activity is seen in the hippocampus during multiple network patterns, prominently as replay activity during both awake and sleep sharp‐wave ripples (SWRs), and as theta sequences during active exploration. Although various mnemonic and cognitive functions have been ascribed to these hippocampal sequences, evidence for these proposed functions remains primarily phenomenological. Here, we briefly review current knowledge about replay events and theta sequences in spatial memory tasks. We reason that in order to gain a mechanistic and causal understanding of how these patterns influence memory and cognitive processing, it is important to consider how these sequences influence activity in other regions, and in particular, the prefrontal cortex, which is crucial for memory‐guided behavior. For spatial memory tasks, we posit that hippocampal‐prefrontal interactions mediated by replay and theta sequences play complementary and overlapping roles at different stages in learning, supporting memory encoding and retrieval, deliberative decision making, planning, and guiding future actions. This framework offers testable predictions for future physiology and closed‐loop feedback inactivation experiments for specifically targeting hippocampal sequences as well as coordinated prefrontal activity in different network states, with the potential to reveal their causal roles in memory‐guided behavior.
- Subjects
COGNITION; SPATIAL memory; MEMORY; COGNITIVE ability; DECISION making; MNEMONICS
- Publication
Hippocampus, 2020, Vol 30, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
1050-9631
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hipo.22821