Spatialization of Time in the Entorhinal-Hippocampal System
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Date
2022-01-06
Authors
House, Troy M.
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Abstract
The functional role of the entorhinal-hippocampal system has been a long withstanding
mystery. One key theory that has become most popular is that the entorhinalhippocampal
system represents space to facilitate navigation in one’s surroundings. In
this Perspective article, I introduce a novel idea that undermines the inherent uniqueness
of spatial information in favor of time driving entorhinal-hippocampal activity. Specifically,
by spatializing events that occur in succession (i.e., across time), the entorhinalhippocampal
system is critical for all types of cognitive representations. I back up this
argument with empirical evidence that hints at a role for the entorhinal-hippocampal
system in non-spatial representation, and computational models of the logarithmic
compression of time in the brain.
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8 pages
Keywords
Place cells and time cells, Grid cells, Concept cells, Temporal context, Cognitive max, Hippocampus, Entohinal contex
Citation
Houser TM (2022) Spatialization of Time in the Entorhinal-Hippocampal System. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 15:807197. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.807197