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Where and how odor and wind cues are integrated to support wind-guided olfactory navigation?

Andrew M. M. Matheson, Aaron J. Lanz, Ashley M. Medina, Al M. Licata, Timothy A. Currier, Mubarak H. Syed & Katherine I. Nagel. A neural circuit for wind-guided olfactory navigation. Nat Commun 13, 4613 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32247-7

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To

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How landmark information reaches the hippocampus?

Elizabeth A.M.A. Allison, Joe W. Moore, Paul A. Dudchenko, Emma R. Wood. The medial entorhinal cortex is necessary for the stimulus control over hippocampal place fields by distal, but not proximal, landmarks. bioRxiv 2022.08.04.502628; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.04.502628

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Whether rats can learn spaces just by observation?

Doublet T, Nosrati M and Kentros CG (2022) Social Learning of a Spatial Task by Observation Alone. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 16:902675. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.902675

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“Interactions between conspecifics are central to the acquisition of useful memories in the real world. …

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How conjunctive and complementary CA1 hippocampal cell populations relate sensory events to immobility and locomotion?

Samsoon Inayat, Brendan B McAllister, Bruce L McNaughton, Ian Q Whishaw, Majid H Mohajerani. Conjunctive and complementary CA1 hippocampal cell populations relate sensory events to immobility and locomotion. bioRxiv 2022.07.06.498996; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.06.498996

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The way in which the

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How the brain associate multiple sensory cues with objects and experience?

Scott Waddell, Zeynep Okray, Pedro F Jacob, Ciara Stern, Kieran Desmond, Nils Otto, Paola Vargas-Gutierrez. Multisensory learning binds modality-specific neurons into a cross-modal memory engram. bioRxiv 2022.07.08.499174; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.08.499174

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Associating multiple sensory cues with objects and experience

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How information about objects is represented in collective dynamics of the hippocampal population?

Anne Nagelhus, Sebastian Andersson, Soledad Gonzalo Cogno, Edvard I. Moser, May-Britt Moser. Object-centered population coding in CA1 of the hippocampus. bioRxiv 2022.07.07.499197; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.07.499197

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Objects and landmarks are crucial for guiding navigation and must be integrated into

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How the hippocampus creates a vector-based model to support flexible navigation, allowing animals to select optimal paths to destinations from any location in the environment?

Ormond, J., O’Keefe, J. Hippocampal place cells have goal-oriented vector fields during navigation. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04913-9

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“The hippocampal cognitive map supports navigation towards, or away from, salient locations in familiar environments1. Although much is known about how the

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How navigation task and action space drive the emergence of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations?

Sandhiya Vijayabaskaran, Sen Cheng. Navigation task and action space drive the emergence of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations. bioRxiv 2022.06.22.497126; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.22.497126

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“In general, strategies for spatial navigation could employ one of two spatial reference frames: egocentric or …

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Whether grid-cell-like representations support temporal processing?

Gregory Peters-Founshtein, Amnon Dafni-Merom, Rotem Monsa, Shahar Arzy. Evidence for grid-cell-related activity in the time domain. bioRxiv 2022.06.14.476894; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.14.476894

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“The relation between the processing of space and time in the brain has been an enduring cross-disciplinary question. …

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How to implement closed-loop control and recalibration of place cells by optic flow?

Manu S Madhav, Ravikrishnan P Jayakumar, Brian Y Li, Francesco Savelli, James J Knierim, Noah J Cowan. Closed-loop control and recalibration of place cells by optic flow. bioRxiv 2022.06.12.495823; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.12.495823

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“Understanding the interplay between sensory input, endogenous …

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How could path integration vectors be encoded in the brains of bees for navigation?

Rickesh N. Patel, Julian Kempenaers, Stanley Heinze. Vector navigation in walking bumblebees. Current Biology, 2022, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.05.010

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Path integration is a computational strategy that allows an animal to maintain an internal estimate of its position relative to a

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How does the brain maintain a stable head direction representation in naturalistic visual environments?

Hannah Haberkern, Shivam S Chitnis, Philip M Hubbard, Tobias Goulet, Ann M Hermundstad, Vivek Jayaraman. Maintaining a stable head direction representation in naturalistic visual environments. bioRxiv 2022.05.17.492284; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.17.492284

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Many animals rely on a representation of head

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How can small networks accurately track an animal’s movements to guide navigation?

Marcella Noorman, Brad K Hulse, Vivek Jayaraman, Sandro Romani, Ann M Hermundstad. Accurate angular integration with only a handful of neurons. bioRxiv 2022.05.23.493052; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.23.493052

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To flexibly navigate, many animals rely on internal spatial representations that persist

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How can a joint spatiotemporal phase code implement the combined neural representation of space and time in the human entorhinal cortex?

Nadasdy, Z., Howell, D., Török, Á., Nguyen, T. P., Shen, J. Y., Briggs, D. E., Modur, P. N., & Buchanan, R. J. (2022). Phase coding of spatial representations in the human entorhinal cortexScience advances8(18), eabm6081. …

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How the human brain represents time during a temporally continuous uninterrupted experience?

Zahra M. Aghajan, Gabriel Kreiman, Itzhak Fried. Periodic Time Cells in Human Entorhinal Cortex. bioRxiv 2022.05.05.490703; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.05.490703

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“The representation of time in the brain is a fundamental component of cognition. Here we investigated how the human brain

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