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Single Neuron Coding of Identity in the Human Hippocampal Formation

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dc.contributor.author Rey, Hernán
dc.contributor.author Gori, Belén
dc.contributor.author Chaure, Fernando
dc.contributor.author Collavini, Santiago
dc.contributor.author Blenkmann, Alejandro
dc.contributor.author Seoane, Pablo
dc.contributor.author Seoane, Eduardo
dc.contributor.author Kochen, Silvia
dc.contributor.author Quian Quiroga, Rodrigo
dc.date.accessioned 2021-03-01T04:35:30Z
dc.date.available 2021-03-01T04:35:30Z
dc.date.issued 2020-03-05
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.035
dc.identifier.uri https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103760/
dc.identifier.uri http://repositorio.hospitalelcruce.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/1087
dc.description.abstract Experimental findings show the ubiquitous presence of graded responses and tuning curves in the neocortex, particularly in visual areas [1-15]. Among these, inferotemporal-cortex (IT) neurons respond to complex visual stimuli, but differences in the neurons' responses can be used to distinguish the stimuli eliciting the responses [8, 9, 16-18]. The IT projects directly to the medial temporal lobe (MTL) [19], where neurons respond selectively to different pictures of specific persons and even to their written and spoken names [20-22]. However, it is not clear whether this is done through a graded coding, as in the neocortex, or a truly invariant code, in which the response-eliciting stimuli cannot be distinguished from each other. To address this issue, we recorded single neurons during the repeated presentation of different stimuli (pictures and written and spoken names) corresponding to the same persons. Using statistical tests and a decoding approach, we found that only in a minority of cases can the different pictures of a given person be distinguished from the neurons' responses and that in a larger proportion of cases, the responses to the pictures were different to the ones to the written and spoken names. We argue that MTL neurons tend to lack a representation of sensory features (particularly within a sensory modality), which can be advantageous for the memory function attributed to this area [23-25], and that a full representation of memories is given by a combination of mostly invariant coding in the MTL with a representation of sensory features in the neocortex. es_AR
dc.language.iso en es_AR
dc.relation.ispartofseries Curr Biol.;2020 Mar 23;30(6):1152-1159.e3
dc.subject Hipocampo es_AR
dc.title Single Neuron Coding of Identity in the Human Hippocampal Formation es_AR
dc.type Article es_AR


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