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Increased flexibility of CA3 memory representations following environmental enrichment
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dc.contributor.author | Ventura, Silvia | |
dc.contributor.author | Duncan, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.author | Ainge, James | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-18T09:30:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-04-18T09:30:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-05-06 | |
dc.identifier | 300588732 | |
dc.identifier | 57adc8f8-7550-41b0-9fb5-b210a41f2d2e | |
dc.identifier | 85191509760 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ventura , S , Duncan , S & Ainge , J 2024 , ' Increased flexibility of CA3 memory representations following environmental enrichment ' , Current Biology , vol. 34 , no. 9 , pp. 2011-2019 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.03.054 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0960-9822 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-0007-1533/work/158122877 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/29708 | |
dc.description | This work was supported by a grant from the BBSRC (BB/X007197/1). | en |
dc.description.abstract | Environmental enrichment (EE) improves memory, particularly the ability to discriminate similar past experiences.1,2,3,4,5,6 The hippocampus supports this ability via pattern separation, the encoding of similar events using dissimilar memory representations.7 This is carried out in the dentate gyrus (DG) and CA3 subfields.8,9,10,11,12 Upregulation of adult neurogenesis in the DG improves memory through enhanced pattern separation.1,2,3,4,5,6,11,13,14,15,16 Adult-born granule cells (abGCs) in DG are suggested to contribute to pattern separation by driving inhibition in regions such as CA3,13,14,15,16,17,18 leading to sparser, nonoverlapping representations of similar events (although a role for abGCs in driving excitation in the hippocampus has also been reported16). Place cells in the hippocampus contribute to pattern separation by remapping to spatial and contextual alterations to the environment.19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27 How spatial responses in CA3 are affected by EE and input from increased numbers of abGCs in DG is, however, unknown. Here, we investigate the neural mechanisms facilitating improved memory following EE using associative recognition memory tasks that model the automatic and integrative nature of episodic memory. We find that EE-dependent improvements in difficult discriminations are related to increased neurogenesis and sparser memory representations across the hippocampus. Additionally, we report for the first time that EE changes how CA3 place cells discriminate similar contexts. CA3 place cells of enriched rats show greater spatial tuning, increased firing rates, and enhanced remapping to contextual changes. These findings point to more precise and flexible CA3 memory representations in enriched rats, which provides a putative mechanism for EE-dependent improvements in fine memory discrimination. | |
dc.format.extent | 3806559 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Current Biology | en |
dc.subject | Neurogenesis | en |
dc.subject | Pattern separation | en |
dc.subject | Episodic memory | en |
dc.subject | Place cell | en |
dc.subject | Remapping | en |
dc.subject | Dentate gyrus | en |
dc.subject | Object recognition | en |
dc.subject | Rat | en |
dc.subject | Hippocampus | en |
dc.subject | Context | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.title | Increased flexibility of CA3 memory representations following environmental enrichment | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | BBSRC | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.03.054 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | BB/X007197/1 | en |
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