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Processing of tactile information by the hippocampus

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Title
Processing of tactile information by the hippocampus
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, November 2007
DOI 10.1073/pnas.0708611104
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Antonio Pereira, Sidarta Ribeiro, Michael Wiest, Leonardo C. Moore, Janaina Pantoja, Shih-Chieh Lin, Miguel A. L. Nicolelis

Abstract

The ability to detect unusual events occurring in the environment is essential for survival. Several studies have pointed to the hippocampus as a key brain structure in novelty detection, a claim substantiated by its wide access to sensory information through the entorhinal cortex and also distinct aspects of its intrinsic circuitry. Novelty detection is implemented by an associative match-mismatch algorithm involving the CA1 and CA3 hippocampal subfields that compares the stream of sensory inputs received by CA1 to the stored representation of spatiotemporal sequences in CA3. In some rodents, including the rat, the highly sensitive facial whiskers are responsible for providing accurate tactile information about nearby objects. Surprisingly, however, not much is known about how inputs from the whiskers reach CA1 and how they are processed therein. Using concurrent multielectrode neuronal recordings and chemical inactivation in behaving rats, we show that trigeminal inputs from the whiskers reach the CA1 region through thalamic and cortical relays associated with discriminative touch. Ensembles of hippocampal neurons also carry precise information about stimulus identity when recorded during performance in an aperture-discrimination task using the whiskers. We also found broad similarities between tactile responses of trigeminal stations and the hippocampus during different vigilance states (wake and sleep). Taken together, our results show that tactile information associated with fine whisker discrimination is readily available to the hippocampus for dynamic updating of spatial maps.

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Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
Brazil 4 2%
United Kingdom 3 2%
France 2 1%
Italy 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Other 2 1%
Unknown 167 89%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 51 27%
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 22%
Student > Master 18 10%
Student > Bachelor 18 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 12 6%
Other 25 13%
Unknown 23 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 71 38%
Neuroscience 31 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 9%
Psychology 14 7%
Engineering 8 4%
Other 17 9%
Unknown 30 16%
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