News without the buzz: reading out weak theta rhythms in the hippocampus
bioRxiv the preprint server for biology(2023)
摘要
Local field potentials (LFPs) reflect the collective dynamics of neural populations, yet their exact relationship to neural codes remains unknown[1][1]. One notable exception is the theta rhythm of the rodent hippocampus, which seems to provide a reference clock to decode the animal’s position from spatiotemporal patterns of neuronal spiking[2][2] or LFPs[3][3]. But when the animal stops, theta becomes irregular[4][4], potentially indicating the breakdown of temporal coding by neural populations. Here we show that no such breakdown occurs, introducing an artificial neural network that can recover position-tuned rhythmic patterns (pThetas) without relying on the more prominent theta rhythm as a reference clock. pTheta and theta preferentially correlate with place cell and interneuron spiking, respectively. When rats forage in an open field, pTheta is jointly tuned to position and head orientation, a property not seen in individual place cells but expected to emerge from place cell sequences[5][5]. Our work demonstrates that weak and intermittent oscillations, as seen in many brain regions and species, can carry behavioral information commensurate with population spike codes.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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