Tantárgy adatlapja
Description of the subject:
-list of 10-15 topics representing the planned weekly schedule of the course
Introduction to Hippocampal Phyisiology basic anatomy, place cells, phase precession, theta sequences, replay, generative versus sensory driven dynamics, theta oscillation, sharp waves, grid cells, synaptic plasticity, BTSP, engram theory
Models of Memory Hopfield model and its variants
Models of Navigation: continuous attractor network models for place and grid cells
Unifying Navigation and Memory models: efficient memory models and relation memory for spatial and non-spatial generalization
List of selected literature:
Required:
1. Moser et al., Place Cells, Grid Cells, and the Brain’s Spatial Representation System (2008)
2. Comrie et al., Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus (2022)
3. M. Khona, I.R. Fiete: Attractor and integrator networks in the brain (2022)
4. Whittington et al., How to build a cognitive map (2022)
Recommended:
1. Gupta et al. Hippocampal Replay Is Not a Simple Function of Experience (2010)
2. Stensola et al.: The entorhinal grid map is discretized (2012)
3. Bittner et al.: Conjunctive input processing drives feature selectivity in hippocampal CA1 neurons (2015)
4. Robinson et al., Targeted Activation of Hippocampal Place Cells Drives Memory-Guided Spatial Behavior (2020)
5. Chandra et al., Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus (2024)
List of required skills:
Critical, analytical thinking, building and presenting arguments based on syntheses of ideas from multiple perspectives, contrasting competing models with experimental data, building conceptual models, communication skills including writing short reviews and presenting papers.
