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理研シンポジウム:脳の現実感を操作するーげっ歯類の神経科学におけるバーチャルリアリティの可能性
RIKEN symposium:Manipulating the sense of reality - The potential of virtual reality for neuroscience in rodents

開催日 2014/9/13
時間 15:00 - 17:00
会場 Room G(303)
Chairperson(s) 片山 統裕 / Norihiro Katayama (東北大学大学院情報科学研究科 / Biomodeling Laboratory, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan)
佐藤 正晃 / Masaaki Sato (科学技術振興機構さきがけ / Japan Science and Technology Agency / RIKEN BSI, Japan)

バーチャルリアリティにおけるマウスの空間行動
Spatial behavior of mice in virtual reality

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  • 佐藤 正晃 / Masaaki Sato:1,2 
  • 1:科学技術振興機構さきがけ / PRESTO, JST, Saitama, Japan 2:理化学研究所脳科学総合研究センター / RIKEN BSI, Saitama, Japan 

Virtual reality (VR), a computer-generated environment which simulates sensory experience in the real world, has been used to study neural substrates of behavior in primates and humans for many years and has only recently become an important technology in rodent neuroscience. Towards imaging hippocampal neural circuit activity during spatial behavior, we built a VR set-up around a two-photon microscope and trained mice in behavioral tasks in VR. In this environment, mice with their heads fixed above an air-supported spherical treadmill were allowed to run freely. Computer-generated VR scenes were rendered on a wide LCD monitor to provide visual feedback in response to running. Mice trained in a virtual linear track learned to exhibit spontaneous alteration of running and standing still, which allowed us to study behavioral-state dependent changes of hippocampal neuronal ensemble dynamics with calcium imaging. To test whether mice can discriminate a particular "place" in VR, we also established a new virtual spatial recognition task. In this task, mice start running from one end of a visual cue-rich virtual linear track to the other end. To receive water reward, they need to recognize location of a reward zone in the middle of the track and stay there for a period of delay. Rapid behavioral plasticity can be also induced by moving the position of the reward zone and making the mice relearn the new location. Overall, our reserach demonstrates that mice can develop robust spatial behavior in VR. These behavioral paradigms will thus facilitate studies on cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying spatial navigation and memory as well as their dysfunction associated with developmental and psychiatric disorders.

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