Melamed, O.Gerstner, W.Maass, W.Tsodyks, M.Markram, H.2006-12-122006-12-122006-12-12200410.1016/j.tins.2003.10.014https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/237981WOS:000188599100005486814698603A 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.entext::journal::journal article::research article