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Agarwal A, Sarel A, Derdikman D, Ulanovsky N, Gutfreund Y. Spatial coding in the hippocampus and hyperpallium of flying owls. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2023 Jan 31;120(5):e2212418120.
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“Birds travel long distances and navigate in …
Eleonora Lomi, Kate Jeffery, Anna Mitchell. Convergence of direction, location and theta in the rat anteroventral thalamic nucleus. bioRxiv 2023.01.11.523585; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.11.523585
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“Retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is a cortical region that computes heading direction from landmark information, but …
Jake Ormond, Simon A. Serka, Joshua P. Johansen. Enhanced reactivation of remapping place cells during aversive learning. Journal of Neuroscience 3 January 2023, JN-RM-1450-22; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1450-22.2022
Abstract
“Study of the hippocampal place cell system has greatly enhanced our …
David B. Omer, Liora Las & Nachum Ulanovsky. Contextual and pure time coding for self and other in the hippocampus. Nat Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01226-y
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“Navigation and episodic memory depend critically on representing temporal sequences. Hippocampal ‘time cells’ form …
Huanqiu Zhang, P. Dylan Rich, Albert K. Lee & Tatyana O. Sharpee. Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience. Nat Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01212-4
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“Daily experience suggests that we perceive distances near us linearly. …
Ikhwan Bin Khalid, Eric T. Reifenstein, Naomi Auer, Lukas Kunz, Richard Kempter. Quantitative modeling of the emergence of macroscopic grid-like representations. bioRxiv 2022.12.20.521210; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.20.521210
Abstract
“Grid cells are neurons in the entorhinal cortex that play a key …
Salles, Angeles, Melville J. Wohlgemuth, and Cynthia F. Moss. “Neural coding of 3D spatial location, orientation, and action selection in echolocating bats.” Trends in Neurosciences (2022).
Abstract
“Echolocating bats are among the only mammals capable of powered flight, …
Kauê Machado Costa, Robert Scholz, Kevin Lloyd, Perla Moreno-Castilla, Matthew P. H. Gardner, Peter Dayan & Geoffrey Schoenbaum. The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps. Nat Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01216-0
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“We use mental models …
Dario Campagner, Ruben Vale, Yu Lin Tan, Panagiota Iordanidou, Oriol Pavón Arocas, Federico Claudi, A. Vanessa Stempel, Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Rasmus S. Petersen, Troy W. Margrie & Tiago Branco. A cortico-collicular circuit for orienting to shelter during escape. Nature (2022). …
Alexander Gonzalez, Lisa M Giocomo. Parahippocampal neurons encode task-relevant information for goal-directed navigation. bioRxiv 2022.12.15.520660; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.15.520660
Abstract
“A behavioral strategy crucial to survival is directed navigation to a goal, such as a food or home location. One potential …
HaoRan Chang, Ingrid M. Esteves, Adam R. Neumann, Majid H. Mohajerani, Bruce L. McNaughton. Cortical Reactivation of Non-Spatial and Spatial Memory Representations Coordinate with Hippocampus to Form a Memory Dialogue. bioRxiv 2022.12.16.520658; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.16.520658
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“Episodic memory depends on …
Yvette E. Fisher, Michael Marquis, Isabel D’Alessandro& Rachel I. Wilson. Dopamine promotes head direction plasticity during orienting movements. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05485-4
Abstract
“In neural networks that store information in their connection weights, there is a tradeoff between sensitivity …
John C Bowler, Attila Losonczy. Direct Cortical Inputs to Hippocampal Area CA1 Transmit Complementary Signals for Goal-directed Navigation. bioRxiv 2022.11.10.516009; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.10.516009
Summary
“The entorhinal cortex (EC) is central to the brain’s navigation system. Its subregions are conventionally thought …
Elena A. Westeinde, Emily Kellogg, Paul M. Dawson, Jenny Lu, Lydia Hamburg, Benjamin Midler, Shaul Druckmann, Rachel I. Wilson. Transforming a head direction signal into a goal-oriented steering command. bioRxiv 2022.11.10.516039; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.10.516039
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“To navigate, we must …
Ben Sorscher, Gabriel C Mel, Aran Nayebi, Lisa Giocomo, Daniel Yamins, Surya Ganguli. When and why grid cells appear or not in trained path integrators. bioRxiv 2022.11.14.516537; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.14.516537
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“Recent work has claimed that the emergence of grid …
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