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Nat Neurosci ; 19(7): 935-44, 2016 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27182817

ABSTRACT

The lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) computes and transfers olfactory information from the olfactory bulb to the hippocampus. Here we established LEC connectivity to upstream and downstream brain regions to understand how the LEC processes olfactory information. We report that, in layer II (LII), reelin- and calbindin-positive (RE(+) and CB(+)) neurons constitute two major excitatory cell types that are electrophysiologically distinct and differentially connected. RE(+) neurons convey information to the hippocampus, while CB(+) neurons project to the olfactory cortex and the olfactory bulb. In vivo calcium imaging revealed that RE(+) neurons responded with higher selectivity to specific odors than CB(+) neurons and GABAergic neurons. At the population level, odor discrimination was significantly better for RE(+) than CB(+) neurons, and was lowest for GABAergic neurons. Thus, we identified in LII of the LEC anatomically and functionally distinct neuronal subpopulations that engage differentially in feedforward and feedback signaling during odor processing.


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Action Potentials/physiology , Entorhinal Cortex/physiology , Hippocampus/physiology , Neurons/physiology , Odorants , Smell/physiology , Animals , Hippocampus/metabolism , Male , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Mice, Transgenic , Olfactory Bulb/metabolism , Patch-Clamp Techniques/methods , Reelin Protein
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Cereb Cortex ; 24(5): 1152-64, 2014 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23236204

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Perception is an active inferential process in which prior knowledge is combined with sensory input, the result of which determines the contents of awareness. Accordingly, previous experience is known to help the brain "decide" what to perceive. However, a critical aspect that has not been addressed is that previous experience can exert 2 opposing effects on perception: An attractive effect, sensitizing the brain to perceive the same again (hysteresis), or a repulsive effect, making it more likely to perceive something else (adaptation). We used functional magnetic resonance imaging and modeling to elucidate how the brain entertains these 2 opposing processes, and what determines the direction of such experience-dependent perceptual effects. We found that although affecting our perception concurrently, hysteresis and adaptation map into distinct cortical networks: a widespread network of higher-order visual and fronto-parietal areas was involved in perceptual stabilization, while adaptation was confined to early visual areas. This areal and hierarchical segregation may explain how the brain maintains the balance between exploiting redundancies and staying sensitive to new information. We provide a Bayesian model that accounts for the coexistence of hysteresis and adaptation by separating their causes into 2 distinct terms: Hysteresis alters the prior, whereas adaptation changes the sensory evidence (the likelihood function).


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Adaptation, Physiological/physiology , Brain Mapping , Cerebral Cortex/physiology , Memory/physiology , Nerve Net/physiology , Visual Perception/physiology , Adult , Cerebral Cortex/blood supply , Eye Movements , Female , Humans , Image Processing, Computer-Assisted , Logistic Models , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Male , Oxygen/blood , Photic Stimulation , Psychophysics , Young Adult
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