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Loren Frank
Professor at University of California, San Francisco
Field of Study: Biology , Published 30 Projects
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Cognitive faculties such as imagination, planning, and decision-making entail the ability to represent hypothetical experience. Crucially, animal behavior in natural settings implies that the brain can represent hypothetical future experience not only quickly but also constantly over time, as external events continually unfold. To determine how this is possible, we recorded neural activity in the hippocampus of rats navigating a maze with multiple spatial paths. We found neural activity encoding two possible future scenarios (two upcoming maze paths) in constant alternation at 8 Hz: one scenario per ∼125-ms cycle. Further, we found that the underlying dynamics of cycling (both inter- and intra-cycle dynamics) generalized across qualitatively different representational correlates (location and direction). Notably, cycling occurred across moving behaviors, including during running. These findings identify a general dynamic process capable of quickly and continually representing hypothetical experience, including that of multiple possible futures.
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Loren Frank. (2021, May 18).Constant Sub-second Cycling between Representations of Possible Futures in the Hippocampus[Video]. Scitok. https://scitok.com/project/p/093434a3
Frank Loren. "Constant Sub-second Cycling between Representations of Possible Futures in the Hippocampus" Scitok, uploaded by Frank Loren, 18 May, 2021, https://scitok.com/project/p093434a3
Loren Frank. "Constant Sub-second Cycling between Representations of Possible Futures in the Hippocampus" Scitok. (May 18, 2021). https://scitok.com/project/p/093434a3
Loren Frank (May 18, 2021). Constant Sub-second Cycling between Representations of Possible Futures in the Hippocampus Scitok. https://scitok.com/project/p/093434a3
Loren Frank. Constant Sub-second Cycling between Representations of Possible Futures in the Hippocampus[video]. 2021 May 18. https://scitok.com/project/p/093434a3
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