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William A Liberti¹, Tobias A Schmid², Angelo Forli¹

¹Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

|March 31, 2022

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Hippocampal neurons in bats show stable spatial coding during navigation. Changes in neural activity are often due to variations in flight behavior, not instability in the hippocampal code itself.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Behavioral Biology
Spatial Navigation

Background:

Hippocampal neural activity is crucial for spatial navigation and memory.
While navigational behavior can be stable, the long-term stability of individual hippocampal neuron tuning is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the longitudinal stability of hippocampal neuron participation and spatial selectivity in freely flying bats.
To determine if apparent changes in neuronal tuning are related to behavioral variations or true instability.

Main Methods:

Utilized wireless calcium imaging to longitudinally track dorsal CA1 hippocampal neuron activity in bats.
Monitored bats performing highly reproducible flights in a controlled, familiar environment.
Compared neural activity under different lighting conditions (lights on vs. lights off) to assess context-dependent stability.

Main Results:

Most dorsal CA1 hippocampal neurons exhibited stable participation and spatial selectivity over days to weeks.
Observed variations in neural tuning were largely explained by concurrent changes in bat flight behavior.
Despite significant behavioral shifts between light conditions, the hippocampal code remained stable when comparing similar flight paths.

Conclusions:

The hippocampal neural code for spatial navigation demonstrates remarkable stability over extended periods and across different environmental contexts.
Behavioral consistency is a critical factor in interpreting the stability of hippocampal neuronal representations.
This study highlights the robustness of the hippocampal spatial code when accounting for behavioral variability.