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cogs1 mapping space in the brain Douglas Nitz – April 29, 2010

cogs1 mapping space in the brain Douglas Nitz – April 29, 2010. MAPPING SPACE IN THE BRAIN – RULE 1: THERE MAY BE MANY POSSIBLE WAYS. depth perception from motion parallax or depth perception from texture gradient or depth perception from occlusion or

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cogs1 mapping space in the brain Douglas Nitz – April 29, 2010

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  1. cogs1 mapping space in the brain Douglas Nitz – April 29, 2010

  2. MAPPING SPACE IN THE BRAIN – RULE 1: THERE MAY BE MANY POSSIBLE WAYS depth perception from motion parallax or depth perception from texture gradient or depth perception from occlusion or depth perception from retinal disparity (stereopsis) : : but which?

  3. * * MAPPING SPACE IN THE BRAIN – RULE 2: DEFINE THE FRAME OF REFERENCE egocentric frames arbitrary frames allocentric (world-centered) retinal space senses musculature vestibular info. route-centered proprioception object-centered

  4. similarity in features of navigational strategies across mammalian species similarity in detailed structure of brain across mammalian species rat brain – dorsal view human brain – sagittal view

  5. Santiago Ramon y Cajal’s ‘neuron doctrine’: establishes the neuron as the basic structural and functional unit of the brain (translation: neurons are to brain function as atoms are to molecules) Cajal’s ‘law of dynamic polarization’: neural/electrical transmission proceeds in one direction – from dendrite/soma  axon  axon terminal (translation: dendrites take in information from other neurons and decide what message to send to other neurons)

  6. multiple single neuron recordings in behaving animals: 15 10 Hz 0 8 Hz 0 0 ‘place’ field recording firing rate neuron 1 occupancy counts firing rate neuron 2 hippocampal pyramidal neuron tetrode (braided set of 4 electrodes) relative-amplitude spike discrimination

  7. * * MAPPING SPACE IN THE BRAIN – RULE 2: DEFINE THE FRAME OF REFERENCE egocentric frames arbitrary frames allocentric (world-centered) retinal space senses musculature body/touch space route-centered proprioception object-centered

  8. PENFIELD AND JASPER, 1951 – THE ‘HOMONCULUS’ – AN EGOCENTRIC MAP

  9. area VIP of parietal cortex I: bringing together personal (egocentric) spaces of the somatosensory and visual systems

  10. area VIP of parietal cortex II: bringing together personal (egocentric) spaces of the somatosensory and visual systems …and movement related to them Duhamel et al., JNP, 1998

  11. * * MAPPING SPACE IN THE BRAIN – RULE 2: DEFINE THE FRAME OF REFERENCE egocentric frames arbitrary frames allocentric (world-centered) retinal space senses musculature vestibular info. route-centered proprioception object-centered

  12. tracking directional heading in the allocentric (world-centered) frame of reference I: ‘head direction’ cells – firing is tuned to the orientation of the animals head relative to the boundaries of the environment – different neurons have different preferred directions (all directions are represented)

  13. tracking position in the world-centered (allocentric) frame of reference: the ‘place cell’ – firing is tuned to the position of the animal in the environment (the place ‘field’) – different neurons map different positions (all directions are represented) – rotation of the environment boundaries = rotation of the place fields

  14. mapping position in the environment by path integration: ‘grid cells’ – neurons of the medial entorhinal cortex exhibit multiple firing fields in any given environment – such fields are arranged according to the nodes of a set of ‘tesselated’ triangles – grids, like head-direction tuning and place cells firing fields rotate with the boundaries of the environment Hafting et al., Nature, 2005

  15. how do grid cells yield hippocampal allocentric position maps? McNaughton et al., 2006, Nature Reviews Neuroscience

  16. * * MAPPING SPACE IN THE BRAIN – RULE 2: DEFINE THE FRAME OF REFERENCE egocentric frames arbitrary frames allocentric (world-centered) retinal space senses musculature vestibular info. route-centered proprioception object-centered

  17. LOCALIZATION OF OBJECT-CENTERED MAPPING TO THE PARIETAL CORTEX together the triangles form an object the ‘top’ of which is perceived as indicated by the arrows – humans with damage to the right parietal cortex (and associated hemi-neglect) often fail to detect the gap in the triangle (red arrows) when it is on the perceived left side of the object (SE-NW) as opposed to the right (SW-NE) Driver et al., Neuropsychologia, 1994

  18. Nitz, Neuron, 2006 parietal cortex neurons in behaving rats map path segments (e.g., start pt. to first R turn) familiar path newly-learned path inbound inbound inbound outbound 10 outbound Hz 0

  19. R path 10 - outbound start L R L goal L goal path 10 - inbound R L start R parietal cortex: a rather abstract frame of reference – the space defined by the route (i.e., the space defined by sequence of behavior changes and the spaces separating them) goal start 35 outbound 0 rbeh = 0.86 rspace = 0.23 35 inbound 0 firing rate 35 rbeh = 0.89 rspace = 0.16 0 35 0 L R R L Nitz, Neuron, 2006

  20. BOLD SIGNALS IMPLICATE HIPPOCAMPUS AND PARIETAL CORTEX IN NOVEL SCENE CONSTRUCTION Hassabis et al., JNS, 2007

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