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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 …
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 …
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 cortex. Science advances, 8(18), eabm6081. …
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 …
Ryosuke Tanaka, Damon A. Clark. Neural mechanisms to exploit positional geometry for collision avoidance,
Current Biology, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.023.
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“Visual motion provides rich geometrical cues about the three-dimensional configuration of the world. However, how brains decode the …
Soledad Gonzalo Cogno, Horst A. Obenhaus, Ragnhild Irene Jacobsen, Flavio Donato, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser. Minute-scale oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex. bioRxiv 2022.05.02.490273; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.02.490273
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“The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) hosts many of the brain’s …
Jelena Sučević, Anna C. Schapiro. A neural network model of hippocampal contributions to category learning. bioRxiv 2022.01.12.476051; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.12.476051
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“In addition to its critical role in encoding individual episodes, the hippocampus is capable of extracting regularities across experiences. …
Luigi Petrucco, Hagar Lavian, You Kure Wu, Fabian Svara, Vilim Štih, Ruben Portugues. Neural dynamics and architecture of the heading direction circuit in a vertebrate brain. bioRxiv 2022.04.27.489672; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.27.489672
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“Animals can use different strategies to navigate. They …
Corey Fernandez, Jiefeng Jiang, Shao-Fang Wang, Hannah Choi, Anthony D Wagner. Representational integration and differentiation in the human hippocampus following goal-directed navigation. bioRxiv 2022.04.12.488078; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.12.488078
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“As we learn, dynamic memory processes build structured knowledge across our experiences. …
Shinichiro Kira, Houman Safaai, Ari S. Morcos, Stefano Panzeri, Christopher D. Harvey. A distributed and efficient population code of mixed selectivity neurons for flexible navigation decisions. bioRxiv 2022.04.10.487349; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.10.487349
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“Decision-making requires flexibility to rapidly switch sensorimotor …
Brad E. Pfeiffer. Spatial learning drives rapid goal representation in hippocampal ripples without place field accumulation or goal-oriented theta sequences. Journal of Neuroscience 8 April 2022, JN-RM-2479-21; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2479-21.2022
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“The hippocampus is critical for rapid acquisition of …
Spalla, D., Treves, A. & Boccara, C.N. Angular and linear speed cells in the parahippocampal circuits. Nat Commun 13, 1907 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29583-z
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“An essential role of the hippocampal region is to integrate information to compute and update …
Torgeir Waaga, Haggai Agmon, Valentin A. Normand, Anne Nagelhus, Richard J. Gardner, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser, Yoram Burak. Grid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity is dissociated from external sensory cues, Neuron, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.03.011.
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“The representation …
William A. Liberti III, Tobias A. Schmid, Angelo Forli, Madeleine Snyder & Michael M. Yartsev. A stable hippocampal code in freely flying bats. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04560-0
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“Neural activity in the hippocampus is known to reflect how animals move …
Kevin K. Sit, Michael J. Goard. Coregistration of heading to visual cues in retrosplenial cortex. bioRxiv 2022.03.25.485865; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.25.485865
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“Spatial cognition depends on an accurate representation of orientation within an environment. Head direction cells in distributed brain regions …
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