User talk:Jhuxter

Hello. We seem to slightly disagree over a bit of wording on the place cell page. Would you mind going over to the discussion page and taking a look at what I wrote? I haven't undone your edit and won't until we discuss it or enough time passes without hearing from you. Digfarenough 18:38, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

phase precession beyond the hippocampus
Re: pyramidal rhythmic firing rates - I put a response on the place cell talk page.

I think it's good to include a more general discussion of the phenomenon. However, I would caution against the use of unpublished (ie. abstract) data. For the sake of waiting a few months, it's better to wait for the peer review process before adding anything potentially questionable to the database. Come to think of it, it may even cause legal problems for future publication of the data. Specifically I'm referring to the Mosers' grid cell phase precession data, which I think is as yet unpublished.

introduction
Heya. I thought I'd properly introduce myself. I'm Eric Zilli, a PhD student in Mike Hasselmo's lab doing mostly computational modelling of hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. I'm pretty sure you met him not long ago (and I think he said he's heading back out in your direction sometime soon). Just thought I'd say hi, it's nice to see hippocampal people around here. Oh, regarding your latest edits to place cell. I don't think place firing of dentate granules is that controversial, both Skaggs et al. (1996) and Gothard et al. (2001) showed that DG granules have place fields. Is there a paper I'm not aware of that claims they don't have place fields? Digfarenough 16:36, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

granule cells
Hi Eric - I've met Mike on two occassions, most recently as FENS - I'm a fan of some of his models. Re: dentate gyrus granule cells, there is an emerging picture that they may not tend to have single discrete fields, and therefore may not technically speaking be "place cells". But for now I guess we can continue to say that granule cells can be place cells, rather than muddy up the Wikipedia page. It's just as well it stayed that way until someone publishes something to the contrary.

Cheers, John