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Hippocampal remapping as hidden state inference.

Honi Sanders^1,2, Matthew A Wilson^1,2, Samuel J Gershman^1,3

¹Center for Brains Minds and Machines, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States.

|June 10, 2020

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Place cells in the hippocampus remap to new environments. This study proposes a hidden state inference framework to explain how subjective beliefs, not just objective changes, drive this neural remapping phenomenon.

Keywords:

bayesian inference context hidden state hippocampus learning neuroscience none place cell

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

Hippocampal place cells encode spatial location.
Place cell tuning changes with environmental context shifts, known as remapping.
The definition of context change and its relation to remapping types remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To formalize the phenomenon of neural remapping using a hidden state inference framework.
To clarify the ambiguities surrounding the definition of context change in remapping.
To explain how subjective beliefs about the environment influence place cell activity.

Main Methods:

Formalizing remapping as a problem of hidden state inference.
Developing a theoretical framework based on subjective beliefs about environmental states.
Analyzing the relationship between objective environmental properties and subjective interpretations.

Main Results:

Remapping is framed as inferring hidden states of the environment.
The model resolves ambiguities in defining context change.
Subjective beliefs, rather than objective features alone, are central to remapping.

Conclusions:

A hidden state inference framework provides a unified account of neural remapping.
This approach clarifies the role of subjective experience in spatial representation.
The model offers new insights into the flexibility and adaptability of hippocampal function.