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  • 1Key Laboratory of Mental Health of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong‑Hong Kong‑Macao Greater Bay Area Center for Brain Science and Brain‑Inspired Intelligence, Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Neuroscience

Background:

  • Flexible goal-directed navigation necessitates integrating dynamic goal information with stable spatial representations.
  • The precise neural mechanisms underlying this integration within cortico-hippocampal circuits remain incompletely understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the distinct and complementary roles of the medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC) and dorsal CA1 (dCA1) in flexible navigation and goal learning.
  • To explore how neuronal activity and network dynamics in these regions support adaptive navigation behaviors.

Main Methods:

  • Simultaneous electrophysiological recordings from mOFC and dCA1 in rats performing a cheeseboard maze task with daily changing goal locations.
  • Analysis of neuronal representations, population activity, and inter-regional synchronization (theta and gamma frequencies) during navigation and goal periods.
  • Development of a recurrent neural network model to simulate observed learning and navigation dynamics.

Main Results:

  • Rats demonstrated rapid learning of new goal locations and robust memory retention.
  • dCA1 exhibited stronger spatial specificity, while mOFC showed more pronounced learning-related updating of goal representations.
  • Combined mOFC and dCA1 activity significantly improved decoding of behavioral stage and learning block compared to individual regions.
  • Enhanced theta-range synchronization and theta-gamma coupling were observed during navigation compared to goal periods.

Conclusions:

  • mOFC and dCA1 possess complementary roles in flexible navigation, contributing to both ongoing behavior and learning state updates.
  • Temporal coordination, including theta-gamma coupling, may be a key mechanism for adaptive navigation and efficient goal updating.
  • A recurrent network model provides a plausible computational framework for cortico-hippocampal contributions to adaptive navigation.