Redish A David
Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Hippocampus. 2025 Jan;35(1):e23661. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23661.
Because imagination activates the same neural circuits used in understanding the present, one can access that imagination even in non-linguistic animals through decoding techniques applied to large neural ensembles. This personal retrospective traces the history of the initial discovery that hippocampal theta sequences sweep forward to goals during moments of deliberation and discusses the history that was necessary to put ourselves in the position to recognize this signal. It also discusses how that discovery fits into the larger picture of hippocampal function and the concept of cognition as computation.
由于想象激活了与理解当下所使用的相同神经回路，因此即使在非语言动物中，也可以通过应用于大型神经集合的解码技术来获取这种想象。这篇个人回顾追溯了最初发现的历史，即海马体θ序列在思考时刻向前扫向目标，并讨论了使我们能够识别这一信号所需的历史背景。它还讨论了这一发现如何融入海马体功能的整体图景以及将认知视为计算的概念之中。
