Collective Behavior of Place and Non-place Neurons in the Hippocampal Network. Author Leenoy Meshulam, Jeffrey Gauthier, Carlos Brody, David Tank, William Bialek Publication Year 2017 Type Journal Article Abstract Discussions of the hippocampus often focus on place cells, but many neurons are not place cells in any given environment. Here we describe the collective activity in such mixed populations, treating place and non-place cells on the same footing. We start with optical imaging experiments on CA1 in mice as they run along a virtual linear track and use maximum entropy methods to approximate the distribution of patterns of activity in the population, matching the correlations between pairs of cells but otherwise assuming as little structure as possible. We find that these simple models accurately predict the activity of each neuron from the state of all the other neurons in the network, regardless of how well that neuron codes for position. Our results suggest that understanding the neural activity may require not only knowledge of the external variables modulating it but also of the internal network state. Keywords Animals, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Male, Action Potentials, Models, Neurological, Neurons, Photic Stimulation, Algorithms, Nerve Net, Space Perception, Entropy, Mice, Transgenic, Hippocampus, User-Computer Interface, CA1 Region, Hippocampal Journal Neuron Volume 96 Issue 5 Pages 1178-1191.e4 Date Published 2017 Dec 06 ISSN Number 1097-4199 DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.10.027 Alternate Journal Neuron PMCID PMC5720931 PMID 29154129 PubMedPubMed CentralGoogle ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML