切割诱导的对称性不对称在内腔网格细胞中
Tor Stensola1, Hanne Stensola1, May-Britt Moser1
1Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Olav Kyrres gate 9, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
Nature
|February 13, 2015
概括
网格细胞,绘制空间图的神经元,通过经验与环境保持一致. 它们的旋转和扭曲表明它们通过剪切力固定在环境几何上.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 空间导航 空间导航
- 计算神经科学是一种神经科学.
背景情况:
- 网格细胞表现出周期性的空间受体场,六边形地铺设环境.
- 网格细胞活动与外部参考框架的稳定定对于空间认知至关重要.
- 这种定过程的精确机制在很大程度上是未知的.
研究的目的:
- 调查网格细胞表示如何与熟悉环境的几何结构保持一致.
- 阐明网格模式方向,扭曲和环境特征之间的关系.
- 揭示电网电池对外部参考框架的定的潜在机制.
主要方法:
- 在熟悉的不同尺寸的方形围内记录动物的网格细胞活动.
- 分析与环境边界相对的电网电池火场的方向和扭曲.
- 使用数学转换来分析网格模式变形.
主要成果:
- 网格细胞轴显示了与围墙壁相对应的角度偏移,最大限度地减少了对称性.
- 这种旋转偏移与网格图案的圆扭曲相结合.
- 在分析上消除扭曲也消除了角偏移,表明一个统一的机制.
- 电网细胞旋转在新环境中是最小的,随着经验的增加而增加.
结论:
- 电网细胞与环境的对齐是通过涉及非同轴应变和剪切力的过程实现的.
- 经验依赖于对几何参考点的定驱动了网格模式的旋转和扭曲.
- 这些发现为空间表示和导航的神经基础提供了关键的见解.
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