--- OA_place: publisher _id: '837' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'The hippocampus is a key brain region for memory and notably for spatial memory, and is needed for both spatial working and reference memories. Hippocampal place cells selectively discharge in specific locations of the environment to form mnemonic represen tations of space. Several behavioral protocols have been designed to test spatial memory which requires the experimental subject to utilize working memory and reference memory. However, less is known about how these memory traces are presented in the hippo campus, especially considering tasks that require both spatial working and long -term reference memory demand. The aim of my thesis was to elucidate how spatial working memory, reference memory, and the combination of both are represented in the hippocampus. In this thesis, using a radial eight -arm maze, I examined how the combined demand on these memories influenced place cell assemblies while reference memories were partially updated by changing some of the reward- arms. This was contrasted with task varian ts requiring working or reference memories only. Reference memory update led to gradual place field shifts towards the rewards on the switched arms. Cells developed enhanced firing in passes between newly -rewarded arms as compared to those containing an unchanged reward. The working memory task did not show such gradual changes. Place assemblies on occasions replayed trajectories of the maze; at decision points the next arm choice was preferentially replayed in tasks needing reference memory while in the pure working memory task the previously visited arm was replayed. Hence trajectory replay only reflected the decision of the animal in tasks needing reference memory update. At the reward locations, in all three tasks outbound trajectories of the current arm were preferentially replayed, showing the animals’ next path to the center. At reward locations trajectories were replayed preferentially in reverse temporal order. Moreover, in the center reverse replay was seen in the working memory task but in the other tasks forward replay was seen. Hence, the direction of reactivation was determined by the goal locations so that part of the trajectory which was closer to the goal was reactivated later in an HSE while places further away from the goal were reactivated earlier. Altogether my work demonstrated that reference memory update triggers several levels of reorganization of the hippocampal cognitive map which are not seen in simpler working memory demand s. Moreover, hippocampus is likely to be involved in spatial decisions through reactivating planned trajectories when reference memory recall is required for such a decision. ' acknowledgement: 'I am very grateful for the opportunity I have had as a graduate student to explore and incredibly interesting branch of neuroscience, and for the people who made it possible. Firstly, I would like to offer my thanks to my supervisor Professor Jozsef Csicsvari for his great support, guidance and patience offered over the years. The door to his office was always open whenever I had questions. I have learned a lot from him about carefully designing experiments, asking interesting questions and how to integrate results into a broader picture. I also express my gratitude to the remarkable post- doc , Dr. Joseph O’Neill. He is a gre at scientific role model who is always willing to teach , and advice and talk through problems with his full attention. Many thanks to my wonderful “office mates” over the years and their support and encouragement, Alice Avernhe, Philipp Schönenberger, Desiree Dickerson, Karel Blahna, Charlotte Boccara, Igor Gridchyn, Peter Baracskay, Krisztián Kovács, Dámaris Rangel, Karola Käfer and Federico Stella. They were the ones in the lab for the many useful discussions about science and for making the laboratory such a nice and friendly place to work in. A special thank goes to Michael LoBianco and Jago Wallenschus for wonderful technical support. I would also like to thank Professor Peter Jonas and Professor David M Bannerman for being my qualifying exam and thesi s committee members despite their busy schedule. I am also very thankful to IST Austria for their support all throughout my PhD. ' alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Haibing full_name: Xu, Haibing id: 310349D0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Xu citation: ama: Xu H. Reactivation of the hippocampal cognitive map in goal-directed spatial tasks. 2017. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_858 apa: Xu, H. (2017). Reactivation of the hippocampal cognitive map in goal-directed spatial tasks. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_858 chicago: Xu, Haibing. “Reactivation of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Goal-Directed Spatial Tasks.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_858. ieee: H. Xu, “Reactivation of the hippocampal cognitive map in goal-directed spatial tasks,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. ista: Xu H. 2017. Reactivation of the hippocampal cognitive map in goal-directed spatial tasks. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Xu, Haibing. Reactivation of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Goal-Directed Spatial Tasks. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_858. short: H. Xu, Reactivation of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Goal-Directed Spatial Tasks, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2018-12-11T11:48:46Z date_published: 2017-08-23T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-06-18T18:56:25Z day: '23' ddc: - '571' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: JoCs doi: 10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_858 file: - access_level: closed checksum: f11925fbbce31e495124b6bc4f10573c content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: dernst date_created: 2019-04-05T08:59:51Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:12Z file_id: '6213' file_name: 2017_Xu_Haibing_Thesis_Source.docx file_size: 3589490 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: ffb10749a537d615fab1ef0937ccb157 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-04-05T08:59:51Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:12Z file_id: '6214' file_name: 2017_Xu_Thesis_IST.pdf file_size: 11668613 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:12Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_858 has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '93' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria publist_id: '6811' pubrep_id: '858' related_material: record: - id: '5828' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Jozsef L full_name: Csicsvari, Jozsef L id: 3FA14672-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Csicsvari orcid: 0000-0002-5193-4036 title: Reactivation of the hippocampal cognitive map in goal-directed spatial tasks tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2017' ...