Coding and Learning of behavioral sequences

• Published in: Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 27, num. 1, p. 11-14
• Publication date: 2004

A major challenge to understanding behavior is how the nervous system allows the learning of behavioral sequences that can occur over arbitrary timescales, ranging from milliseconds up to seconds, using a fixed millisecond learning rule. This article describes some potential solutions, and then focuses on a study by Mehta et al. that could contribute towards solving this puzzle. They have discovered that an experience-dependent asymmetric shape of hippocampal receptive fields combined with oscillatory inhibition can serve to map behavioral sequences on a fixed timescale.

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Reference

• LCN-ARTICLE-2004-003
• doi:10.1016/j.tins.2003.10.014
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