Matt Wilson: Hippocampal memory reactivation in awake and sleep states

Topics: Role of hippocampus in formation of episodic memory (linkage of events) and spatial memory used in navigation (linkage of spatial locations); both capabilities depend on temporal sequence encoding; place fields emerge for rats on linear tracks; hippocampal place cells; ensemble decoding; decoding sleep reactivation; interaction of asymmetric excitation with oscillatory variation in inhibition to translate space into time, suggested by hippocampal phase precession; hippocampal spatial representations encoded as sequences during behavior