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How visual objects refine head direction coding?

Dominique Siegenthaler, Henry Denny, Sofía Skromne Carrasco, Johanna Luise Mayer, Daniel Levenstein,Adrien Peyrache, Stuart Trenholm, Émilie Macé. Visual objects refine head direction coding. Science, 389,eadu9828(2025).DOI:10.1126/science.adu9828

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Animals use visual objects to guide navigation-related behaviors. However, visual object–preferring …

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How cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code?

Manuel Valero, Pablo Abad-Perez, Andrea Gallardo, Marta Picco, Raquel García-Hernandez, Jorge Brotons, Anel Martínez-Félix, Robert Machold, Bernardo Rudy, György Buzsáki. Cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code. Science 389,eadv5638(2025). DOI:10.1126/science.adv5638

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Identifying the computational roles

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How mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies?

Siddharth Jayakumar, Nicola Rigolli, Mackenzie W Mathis, Massimo Vergassola, Alexander Mathis, Venkatesh N Murthy. Mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies. bioRxiv 2025.08.27.672631; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.27.672631

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Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide

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What’s the replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats?

Angelo Forli, Wudi Fan, Kevin K. Qi & Michael M. Yartsev. Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying batsNature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09341-z

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Cognitive functions for navigation and memory rely on emergent properties of

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How allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells?

Sueoka, Y., Jayakumar, R.P., Madhav, M.S. et al. Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02038-6

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Theta oscillation is considered a temporal scaffold for hippocampal computations that

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How the brain implement multimodal cue integration and learning in a neural representation of head direction?

Basnak, M.A., Kutschireiter, A., Okubo, T.S. et al. Multimodal cue integration and learning in a neural representation of head directionNat Neurosci 28, 1729–1740 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01823-z

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Navigation requires us to take account of multiple spatial cues

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How to build a fully neuromorphic localization system capable of large-scale, on-device deployment for energy-efficient robotic place recognition?

Adam D. Hines, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer. A compact neuromorphic system for ultra–energy-efficient, on-device robot localization. Sci. Robot.10, eads3968(2025).DOI:10.1126/scirobotics.ads3968

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Neuromorphic computing offers a transformative pathway to overcome the computational and energy challenges faced in deploying robotic localization

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How the brain coordinates remote vision with the activity of place cells?

Hannah L. Payne & Dmitriy Aronov. Remote activation of place codes by gaze in a highly visual animal. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09101-z

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Vision enables many animals to perform spatial reasoning from remote locations1. By viewing distant landmarks, …

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How the brain process spatial reasoning via recurrent neural dynamics in mouse retrosplenial cortex?

Jakob Voigts, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Nicholas J. Miller, Enrique H. S. Toloza, Jonathan P. Newman, Ila R. Fiete & Mark T. Harnett. Spatial reasoning via recurrent neural dynamics in mouse retrosplenial cortex. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01944-z

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“From visual perception …

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How brain networks connected by labile synapses store new information without catastrophically overwriting previous memories?

Sachin P. Vaidya, Guanchun Li, Raymond A. Chitwood, Yiding Li & Jeffrey C. Magee. Formation of an expanding memory representation in the hippocampus. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01986-3

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How brain networks connected by labile synapses store new information

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How to construct general and biologically plausible integrating continuous attractor neural networks?

Federico Claudi, Sarthak Chandra, Ila R Fiete. A theory and recipe to construct general and biologically plausible integrating continuous attractor neural networks. bioRxiv 2025.05.07.652608; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.07.652608

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Across the brain, circuits with continuous attractor dynamics underpin the representation

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What’s the coordinated mechanism for integrating allocentric, route-centered, and egocentric spatial reference frames at the network level during navigation?

Yicheng Zheng (征亦诚), Xinyu Zhou (周信羽), Shawn C. Moseley, Sydney M. Ragsdale, Leslie J. Alday, Wei Wu (吴畏), Aaron A. Wilber. A Hippocampal–Parietal Network for Reference Frame Coordination. Journal of Neuroscience 23 April 2025, 45 (17) e1782242025; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1782-24.2025…

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Whether stereo olfaction can enable the formation of allocentric spatial representations?

Asumbisa, K., Peyrache, A. & Trenholm, S. Stereo olfaction underlies stable coding of head direction in blind mice. Nat Commun 16, 3545 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58847-7

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Stereo olfaction, the difference in odor concentration between the two nostrils, has been

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How flexible navigation strategies emerge and evolve in freely moving non-human primates?

Nada El Mahmoudi, Francesca Lanzarini, Farzad Ziaie Nezhad, Deepak Surendran, Jean Laurens. From Exploration to Structured Navigation: Learning Dynamics of Freely Moving Marmosets during Foraging. bioRxiv 2025.03.22.644580; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.22.644580

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Spatial memory plays a crucial role in guiding

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How insect integrate spatial and temporal information?

Gkanias, E., Webb, B. Spatiotemporal computations in the insect celestial compass. Nat Commun 16, 2832 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57937-w

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Obtaining a geocentric directional reference from a celestial compass requires compensation for the sun’s movement during the day (relative to …

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