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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hippocampus. 2014 May 9;24(9):1129–1145. doi: 10.1002/hipo.22297

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Consensus templates are calculated to represent overall cell firing during behavior. Heatmaps of unit firing during correct turns over normalized time. The heatmaps on the left panel are obtained using data from TLE rats; the heatmaps on the right panel are obtained from units recorded from control animals. The y-axis is cell number. The x-axis is normalized time in seconds. The heatmaps (referred to as consensus templates) represent the typical activity tendencies of each unit over time. Consensus templates for each experiment were constructed by aligning all correct turns over a normalized time period of 3±1.5 s. These templates were then used to correlate unit activity patterns during behavior with the sleep period to investigate reactivation. Following this method, we extracted an overall heatmap of cell activity to be used both for template correlation and Markov Chain analysis methods. Some place cells were found to fire in multiple normalized fields in the consensus templates. This phenomenon was also observed in place cell rate maps.