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Humans have the ability to store and retrieve memories with various degrees of specificity, and recent advances in reinforcement learning have identified benefits to learning when past experience is represented at different levels of temporal abstraction. How this flexibility might be implemented in the brain remains unclear. We analyzed the temporal organization of male rat hippocampal population spiking to identify potential substrates for temporally flexible representations. We examined activity both during locomotion and during memory-associated population events known as sharp-wave ripples (SWRs). We found that spiking during SWRs is rhythmically organized with higher event-to-event variability than spiking during locomotion-associated population events. Decoding analyses using clusterless methods further indicate that a similar spatial experience can be replayed in multiple SWRs, each time with a different rhythmic structure whose periodicity is sampled from a log-normal distribution. This variability increases with experience despite the decline in SWR rates that occurs as environments become more familiar. We hypothesize that the variability in temporal organization of hippocampal spiking provides a mechanism for storing experiences with various degrees of specificity.
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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
ISSN: 0270-6474
Year: 2022
Issue: 18
Volume: 42
Page: 3797-3810
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5 . 3 0 0
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ESI Discipline: NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR;
ESI HC Threshold:37
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:1
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WoS CC Cited Count: 2
SCOPUS Cited Count: 2
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 3
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