Coordinated hippocampal-thalamic-cortical communication crucial for engram dynamics underneath systems consolidation.

ABSTRACT: Systems consolidation refers to the time-dependent reorganization of memory representations or engrams across brain regions. Despite recent advancements in unravelling this process, the exact mechanisms behind engram dynamics and the role of associated pathways remain largely unknown. Here we propose a biologically-plausible computational model to address this knowledge gap. By coordinating synaptic plasticity timescales and incorporating a hippocampus-thalamus-cortex circuit, our model is able to couple engram reactivations across these regions and thereby reproduce key dynamics of cortical and hippocampal engram cells along with their interdependencies. Decoupling hippocampal-thalamic-cortical activity disrupts systems consolidation. Critically, our model yields testable predictions rega

SUBMITTER: Tome DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8837777 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature