Review Article

Ripples Make Waves: Binding Structured Activity and Plasticity in Hippocampal Networks

Figure 1

Proposed means of online encoding of spatial trajectories in the rat hippocampus. Place cells in CA3 and CA1 exhibit partial or entire place field overlap. During exploration, hippocampal networks undergo strong 4–7 Hz theta modulation. Overlapping CA3 place cells fire sequentially within the same theta cycle, establishing the conditions necessary for synaptic plasticity to occur between CA3 cell assemblies associated in time and space. Synaptic plasticity could also take place between CA3 and CA1 place cells with the same receptive field as both would fire near simultaneously and are anatomically coupled via the Schaffer collateral to CA1 pathway.
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