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In the temporal organization of episodic memory, the hippocampus supports the experience of elapsed time.

Abstract：

:Space and time are both essential features of episodic memory, for which the hippocampus is critical (Howard & Eichenbaum, 2015). Spatial tasks have been used effectively to study the behavioral relevance of place cells. However, the behavioral paradigms utilized for the study of time cells have not used time duration as a variable that animals need to be aware of to solve the task. Therefore, the behavioral relevance of this cell firing is unclear. In order to directly study the role of the hippocampus in processing elapsed time, we created a novel time duration discrimination task. Rats learned to make a decision to turn left or right depending on the preceding tone duration (10 s, left turn; 20 s, right turn). Once the rats reached criterion performance of 90% correct on two out of three consecutive days, they received either an excitotoxic hippocampal lesion or a sham-lesion surgery. After recovery, rats were tested to determine hippocampal involvement in discriminating time duration. Rats with hippocampal lesions performed at chance level on their first testing day postlesion, and they were impaired relative to the sham-lesioned rats. Although the hippocampal-lesioned rats began discriminating at above chance level, their performance never returned to criterion even with 50 days of postoperative testing. Furthermore, while sham rats showed no difference in the number of errors they made on 10- versus 20-s delay trials, hippocampal lesion rats similarly improved their performance under the 10-s delay condition, but not under the 20-s delay condition. Results indicate that hippocampal lesions resulted in a selective impairment in discriminating elapsed time only during the longer delay trials. The implications of these results are discussed in relation to the limits of working-memory capacity and to the role of sustained hippocampal time cell activity in memory performance depending on the perceived relevance of the delay period.

journal_name

Hippocampus

journal_title

Hippocampus

authors

Sabariego M,Tabrizi NS,Marshall GJ,McLagan AN,Jawad S,Hales JB

doi

10.1002/hipo.23261

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2021-01-01 00:00:00

pages

46-55

issue

eissn

1050-9631

issn

1098-1063

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In the temporal organization of episodic memory, the hippocampus supports the experience of elapsed time.