Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Cellular tagging as a neural network mechanism for behavioural tagging

  • Masanori Nomoto,
  • Noriaki Ohkawa,
  • Hirofumi Nishizono,
  • Jun Yokose,
  • Akinobu Suzuki,
  • Mina Matsuo,
  • Shuhei Tsujimura,
  • Yukari Takahashi,
  • Masashi Nagase,
  • Ayako M. Watabe,
  • Fusao Kato,
  • Kaoru Inokuchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12319
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Short-term memories (STM) can become long-term memories when occurring alongside novel experiences. Here, the authors investigate the neural mechanisms behind such 'behavioural tagging' and find STM neural populations are preferentially incorporated into the ensembles encoding novel experiences.