Excited to share the first part of my PhD! Place cells encode location not only by firing rates but also by spike timing relative to theta oscillations. We asked how different spatial cues (i.e., landmarks & self-motion cues) contribute to determining this precise timing.
Yotaro Sueoka
Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells
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Using a virtual reality apparatus in rats that dissociates external landmarks from self-motion cues, the authors describe how the two modes of theta phase coding in the hippocampus during navigation a...
