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6 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Characterizing Speed Cells in the Rat Hippocampus

   Góis and Tort · Cell Reports · 2018

   The paper examines speed-correlated firing in rat hippocampal CA1, finding stable speed cells that are all inhibitory, with interneuron firing predicting locomotion speed on a sub-second timescale.

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   1. UncheckedIn rat hippocampal area CA1, speed cells' speed-related firing occurs within theta cycles and does not depend on theta frequency.“Moreover, their speed-correlated firing occurs within theta cycles, independently of theta frequency.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation

   Bowler and Losonczy · Neuron · 2023

   Imaging entorhinal axons in hippocampal area CA1 of mice navigating virtual reality, the study found medial and lateral inputs carry different but overlapping spatial and non-spatial information.

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   1. UncheckedIn mice, axons from both medial and lateral entorhinal cortex carry distinct but overlapping signals about task, location and context.“We uncover distinct yet overlapping representations of task, location, and context in both MEC and LEC axons.”
   2. UncheckedIn mice, medial entorhinal axons in CA1 carried highly location- and context-specific codes, while lateral entorhinal inputs were biased by current navigational goals.“MEC transmitted highly location- and context-specific codes; LEC inputs were biased by ongoing navigational goals.”
   3. UncheckedIn mice running tasks with reliable reward locations, position could be accurately read out from either medial or lateral entorhinal inputs to CA1.“However, during tasks with reliable reward locations, the animals' position could be accurately decoded from either subregion.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Mechanisms of experience-dependent place-cell referencing in hippocampal area CA1

   Qian, Li and Magee · Nature Neuroscience · 2025

   Recording hippocampal CA1 place cells in head-fixed mice, the authors suggest experience-dependent adjustment of synaptic input shapes whether cells track space or a reward goal.

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   1. UncheckedIn mice, familiar surroundings gave a roughly even split of CA1 place cells tied to locations or to reward, but novel ones made most goal-referenced.“In a familiar environment, the CA1 representation consisted of PCs that were referenced to either specific spatial locations or a reward goal in approximately equal proportions; however, the CA1 representation became predominately goal-referenced upon exposure to a novel environment, as space-refer…”
   2. UncheckedIn mice, single CA1 neurons received both space- and goal-referenced synaptic inputs, and their ratio correlated with whether a place cell was space- or goal-referenced.“Intracellular membrane potential recordings revealed that individual CA1 neurons simultaneously received both space- and goal-referenced synaptic inputs, and the ratio of these inputs was correlated with individual PC referencing.”