Sparse and distributed coding of episodic memory in neurons of the human hippocampus

Neurocomputational models hold that sparse distributed coding is the most efficient way for hippocampal neurons to encode episodic memories rapidly. We investigated the representation of episodic memory in hippocampal neurons of nine epilepsy patients undergoing intracranial monitoring as they discr...

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Vydáno v:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Ročník 111; číslo 26; s. 9621
Hlavní autoři: Wixted, John T, Squire, Larry R, Jang, Yoonhee, Papesh, Megan H, Goldinger, Stephen D, Kuhn, Joel R, Smith, Kris A, Treiman, David M, Steinmetz, Peter N
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: United States 01.07.2014
Témata:
Epilepsy - physiopathology
Hippocampus - physiology
Humans
Memory, Episodic
Models, Neurological
Neurophysiological Monitoring
Neuropsychological Tests
intracranial recording
amygdala
recognition memory
ISSN:1091-6490, 1091-6490
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Shrnutí:Neurocomputational models hold that sparse distributed coding is the most efficient way for hippocampal neurons to encode episodic memories rapidly. We investigated the representation of episodic memory in hippocampal neurons of nine epilepsy patients undergoing intracranial monitoring as they discriminated between recently studied words (targets) and new words (foils) on a recognition test. On average, single units and multiunits exhibited higher spike counts in response to targets relative to foils, and the size of this effect correlated with behavioral performance. Further analyses of the spike-count distributions revealed that (i) a small percentage of recorded neurons responded to any one target and (ii) a small percentage of targets elicited a strong response in any one neuron. These findings are consistent with the idea that in the human hippocampus episodic memory is supported by a sparse distributed neural code.
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ISSN:1091-6490
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1408365111