Spatial responsiveness of monkey hippocampal neurons to various visual and auditory stimuli

Tamura, Ono, Fukuda, Nakamura · Hippocampus · 1992 · neuroscience · 10.1002/hipo.450020309 · record Tamura1992-spatial-responsiveness-of-monkey-hippocampal
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egocentric allocentric restraining device directionally differentiating responsiveness reversibly extinguished spatial information is converted from a primary retinotopic representation into egocentric or allocentric representations somewhere between the sensory association cortices and the hippocampal formation / parahippocampal cortices prolonged attention directed to one region of space during training and recording recruits more neurons that encode stimulus relations in that region background stimuli egocentric neurons allocentric neurons selective group neuronal response intensity of computer-synthesized sounds ANOVA one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) p-value chi-squared chi-square test standard error of the mean mean and SEM electrophysiology

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what this limits: the subset of neurons whose responses did not track the apparatus: IT IS DIFFICULT TO INTERPRET RESPONSIVENESS OF NEURONS THAT CHANGE IRRESPECTIVE OF MOVEMENT OF THE APPARATUS
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limitationsAlternative explanations, such as suppression by stimuli not visible in the usual position, cannot be ruled out for the neurons whose responsiveness was extinguished.
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what this limits: the spatial interpretation of the responses: OTHER FACTORS MIGHT HAVE INFLUENCED THE RESPONSIVENESS, SUCH AS SUPPRESSION BY PARTICULAR STIMULI THAT COULD NOT BE SEEN IN THE USUAL POSITION
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limitationsThe directional bias of visual versus auditory responsiveness is not fully explained and may be an artefact of the training and recording set-up.
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what this limits: the visual-versus-auditory asymmetry: THE REASONS FOR THIS DISCRIMINATION ARE NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR, and the offered account is a plausibility argument about what is useful to the monkey
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limitationsWhere the conversion from retinotopic to egocentric or allocentric representation occurs is not resolved by these data.
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limitationsThe largest of the three response groups is left unnamed and absent from the paper's key words.
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what this limits: any use of the egocentric/allocentric dichotomy from this paper: of the 32 neurons tested by rotation, 11 followed the monkey and 9 remained fixed to the environment, while 12 - the largest group - were reversibly extinguished and received no label
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limitationsThe egocentric category is defined to include stimuli fixed to the restraining apparatus, not only to the body.
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controlsthe left and right hemispheres were compared for the anterior-direction preference
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sensesegocentric, here - A LABEL FROM ONE ROTATION, AND WIDER THAN BODY-CENTRED: neurons are so designated because their response directions followed the rotation of the monkey, and the relations meant are to background stimuli on the monkey OR ON THE RESTRAINING DEVICE that rotated with it, so apparatus-fixed and body-fixed responses fall under one name
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sensesthe third group - THE LARGEST, AND UNNAMED: 12 of the 32 rotated neurons had their responses reversibly extinguished, against 11 egocentric and 9 allocentric, so the plurality of the sample falls outside the dichotomy that the key words carry
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content_tagsOnly about one in ten hippocampal-formation neurons recorded (106 of 1,047) responded preferentially to stimuli coming from one or more particular directions.
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content_tagsOf the 106 direction-sensitive neurons, 49 responded to vision only, 35 to audition only, and 22 to both modalities.
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content_tagsVisually driven neurons preferred stimuli from the right anterior direction whereas auditory ones preferred stimuli from behind the monkey.
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content_tagsMoving the experimental apparatus, which the monkey could see, altered the responses of 36 of the 59 neurons tested that way.
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content_tagsFor 24 of the affected neurons the preferred direction stayed the same but the response in that direction was strongly weakened or reversibly abolished.
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content_tagsRotating the monkey showed that 11 neurons carried their preferred direction with the animal, making them egocentric.
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content_tagsNine neurons kept their preferred direction anchored to the room rather than to the animal, making them allocentric.
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content_tagsTwelve further neurons lost their directional selectivity altogether while the monkey was rotated, and regained it afterwards.
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content_tagsResponse size depended on exactly where the visible apparatus stood, not merely on whether it was visible at all.
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content_tagsStimulus-selective auditory neurons responded to complex experimenter-produced sounds - footsteps, a chair moving, a door opening, a data recorder being switched, board tapping and paper crumpling - rather than to pure tones.
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content_tagsDirection-sensitive neurons were found along the whole rostrocaudal axis of the hippocampal formation but were concentrated caudally.
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content_tagsEye position and eye movement did not account for the visual responses of most of these neurons.
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content_tagsIn the 22 bimodal neurons the visual and auditory preferred directions coincided in only half of the cells (11 of 22).
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content_tagsThe subicular complex held a higher share of neurons whose directional responsiveness changed when the apparatus moved (8 of 10) than the dentate gyrus, CA3 or CA1, which were split roughly evenly.
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content_tagsdirectionally differentiating responsiveness
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content_tagsintensity of computer-synthesized sounds
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content_tags106 (10.1%) — number and share of the 1,047 recorded neurons that showed direction-dependent responses
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content_tags36 of 59 — neurons whose responsiveness changed when the experimental apparatus was moved
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content_tags11 — egocentric neurons whose preferred direction followed the rotated monkey
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content_tagsnine — allocentric neurons whose preferred direction stayed fixed to the room
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content_tagsn = 42 — neurons classed as stimulus-selective among the 81 tested with more than ten stimuli
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content_tagsabout 80 dB — intensity at which computer-synthesized sounds were presented
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