--- _id: '7472' abstract: - lang: eng text: Temporally organized reactivation of experiences during awake immobility periods is thought to underlie cognitive processes like planning and evaluation. While replay of trajectories is well established for the hippocampus, it is unclear whether the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) can reactivate sequential behavioral experiences in the awake state to support task execution. We simultaneously recorded from hippocampal and mPFC principal neurons in rats performing a mPFC-dependent rule-switching task on a plus maze. We found that mPFC neuronal activity encoded relative positions between the start and goal. During awake immobility periods, the mPFC replayed temporally organized sequences of these generalized positions, resembling entire spatial trajectories. The occurrence of mPFC trajectory replay positively correlated with rule-switching performance. However, hippocampal and mPFC trajectory replay occurred independently, indicating different functions. These results demonstrate that the mPFC can replay ordered activity patterns representing generalized locations and suggest that mPFC replay might have a role in flexible behavior. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: M-Shop acknowledgement: We thank Todor Asenov and Thomas Menner from the Machine Shop for the drive design and production, Hugo Malagon-Vina for assistance in maze automatization, Jago Wallenschus for taking the images of the histology, and Federico Stella and Juan Felipe Ramirez-Villegas for comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. This work was supported by the EU-FP7 MC-ITN IN-SENS (grant 607616 ). article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Karola full_name: Käfer, Karola id: 2DAA49AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Käfer - first_name: Michele full_name: Nardin, Michele id: 30BD0376-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Nardin orcid: 0000-0001-8849-6570 - first_name: Karel full_name: Blahna, Karel id: 3EA859AE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Blahna - first_name: Jozsef L full_name: Csicsvari, Jozsef L id: 3FA14672-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Csicsvari orcid: 0000-0002-5193-4036 citation: ama: Käfer K, Nardin M, Blahna K, Csicsvari JL. Replay of behavioral sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex during rule switching. Neuron. 2020;106(1):P154-165.e6. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.015 apa: Käfer, K., Nardin, M., Blahna, K., & Csicsvari, J. L. (2020). Replay of behavioral sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex during rule switching. Neuron. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.015 chicago: Käfer, Karola, Michele Nardin, Karel Blahna, and Jozsef L Csicsvari. “Replay of Behavioral Sequences in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex during Rule Switching.” Neuron. Elsevier, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.015. ieee: K. Käfer, M. Nardin, K. Blahna, and J. L. Csicsvari, “Replay of behavioral sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex during rule switching,” Neuron, vol. 106, no. 1. Elsevier, p. P154–165.e6, 2020. ista: Käfer K, Nardin M, Blahna K, Csicsvari JL. 2020. Replay of behavioral sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex during rule switching. Neuron. 106(1), P154–165.e6. mla: Käfer, Karola, et al. “Replay of Behavioral Sequences in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex during Rule Switching.” Neuron, vol. 106, no. 1, Elsevier, 2020, p. P154–165.e6, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.015. short: K. Käfer, M. Nardin, K. Blahna, J.L. Csicsvari, Neuron 106 (2020) P154–165.e6. date_created: 2020-02-10T15:45:48Z date_published: 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-17T14:38:02Z day: '08' department: - _id: JoCs doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.015 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000525319300016' pmid: - '32032512' intvolume: ' 106' isi: 1 issue: '1' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.015 month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: P154-165.e6 pmid: 1 project: - _id: 257BBB4C-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '607616' name: Inter-and intracellular signalling in schizophrenia publication: Neuron publication_identifier: issn: - 0896-6273 publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on IST Homepage relation: press_release url: https://ist.ac.at/en/news/this-brain-area-helps-us-decide/ scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Replay of behavioral sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex during rule switching type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 106 year: '2020' ...