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Human hippocampal theta oscillations reflect sequential dependencies during spatial planning

Kaplan, R; Tauste Campo, A; Bush, D; King, J; Principe, A; Koster, R; Ley Nacher, M; ... Friston, KJ; + view all (2020) Human hippocampal theta oscillations reflect sequential dependencies during spatial planning. Cognitive Neuroscience , 11 (3) pp. 122-131. 10.1080/17588928.2019.1676711. Green open access

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Abstract

Movement-related theta oscillations in rodent hippocampus coordinate ‘forward sweeps’ of location-specific neural activity that could be used to evaluate spatial trajectories online. This raises the possibility that increases in human hippocampal theta power accompany the evaluation of upcoming spatial choices. To test this hypothesis, we measured neural oscillations during a spatial planning task that closely resembles a perceptual decision-making paradigm. In this task, participants searched visually for the shortest path between a start and goal location in novel mazes that contained multiple choice points, and were subsequently asked to make a spatial decision at one of those choice points. We observed ~4–8 Hz hippocampal/medial temporal lobe theta power increases specific to sequential planning that were negatively correlated with subsequent decision speed, where decision speed was inversely correlated with choice accuracy. These results implicate the hippocampal theta rhythm in decision tree search during planning in novel environments.

Type: Article
Title: Human hippocampal theta oscillations reflect sequential dependencies during spatial planning
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2019.1676711
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2019.1676711
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Hippocampus; planning; theta rhythm; prospection; sequential decision making; one-shot learning
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10084696
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