Natural switches in behaviour rapidly modulate hippocampal coding.

ABSTRACT: Throughout their daily lives, animals and humans often switch between different behaviours. However, neuroscience research typically studies the brain while the animal is performing one behavioural task at a time, and little is known about how brain circuits represent switches between different behaviours. Here we tested this question using an ethological setting: two bats flew together in a long 135 m tunnel, and switched between navigation when flying alone (solo) and collision avoidance as they flew past each other (cross-over). Bats increased their echolocation click rate before each cross-over, indicating attention to the other bat^1-9. Hippocampal CA1 neurons represented the bat's own position when flying alone (place coding^10-14). Notably, during cross-overs, ne

SUBMITTER: Sarel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9433324 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature