eprintid: 10039938 rev_number: 36 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/03/99/38 datestamp: 2017-12-14 10:44:49 lastmod: 2022-11-08 13:58:21 status_changed: 2018-07-17 11:11:20 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Spiers, HJ creators_name: Olafsdottir, HF creators_name: Lever, C title: Hippocampal CA1 Activity Correlated with the Distance to the Goal and Navigation Performance ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C07 divisions: D05 divisions: F67 divisions: C08 note: © 2017 The Authors. Hippocampus Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. abstract: Coding the distance to a future goal is an important function of a neural system supporting navigation. While some evidence indicates the hippocampus increases activity with proximity to the goal, others have found activity to decreases with proximity. To explore goal distance coding in the hippocampus we recorded from CA1 hippocampal place cells in rats as they navigated to learned goals in an event arena with a win-stay lose-shift rule. CA1 activity was positively correlated with the distance - decreasing with proximity to the goal. The stronger the correlation between distance to the goal and CA1 activity, the more successful navigation was in a given task session. Acceleration, but not speed, was also correlated with the distance to the goal. However, the relationship between CA1 activity and navigation performance was independent of variation in acceleration and variation in speed. These results help clarify the situations in which CA1 activity encodes navigationally relevant information and the extent to which it relates to behavior. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. date: 2018-09 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22813 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Journal Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1511354 doi: 10.1002/hipo.22813 lyricists_name: Olafsdottir, Hauour lyricists_name: Spiers, Hugo lyricists_id: HFOLA90 lyricists_id: HJSPI38 actors_name: Smith, Daniel actors_id: DSMIT53 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Hippocampus volume: 28 number: 9 pagerange: 644-658 event_location: United States issn: 1098-1063 citation: Spiers, HJ; Olafsdottir, HF; Lever, C; (2018) Hippocampal CA1 Activity Correlated with the Distance to the Goal and Navigation Performance. Hippocampus , 28 (9) pp. 644-658. 10.1002/hipo.22813 <https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22813>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10039938/1/Spiers_et_al-2017-Hippocampus.pdf