NeuroscienceNature NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Hippocampal Motifs
Zahra Aghajan, Lavanya Acharya, Jesse Cushman…·Mayank Mehta
This study investigates hippocampal neuron activity in virtual reality and real-world environments, finding that spatial selectivity is reduced in VR but phase-precession (hippocampal motifs) persists, suggesting intrinsic network mechanisms generate temporal coding independent of spatial localization.
DOI 10.1038/nn.3884