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When and why grid cells appear or not in trained path integrators?

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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How egocentric and allocentric reference frames are chosen and interact in navigation tasks, as well as how they are supported by representations in the brain？

Vijayabaskaran S, Cheng S (2022) Navigation task and action space drive the emergence of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations. PLoS Comput Biol 18(10): e1010320. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010320

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“In general, strategies for spatial navigation could employ one of two spatial …

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How entorhinal cortex directs learning-related changes in CA1 representations?

Christine Grienberger, Jeffrey C. Magee. Entorhinal cortex directs learning-related changes in CA1 representations. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05378-6

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“Learning-related changes in brain activity are thought to underlie adaptive behaviours1,2. For instance, the learning of a reward site by …

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Whether associative memory involves precisely timed spiking of neurons in the medial temporal lobes that exhibit stimulus-specific tuning?

Lukas Kunz, Bernhard P Staresina, Peter C Reinacher, Armin Brandt, Tim A Guth, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Joshua Jacobs. Ripple-locked coactivity of stimulus-specific neurons supports human associative memory. bioRxiv 2022.10.17.512635; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.17.512635

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“Associative memory is the ability to encode …

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How to integrate new memories into the hippocampal network activity space?

Gava, G.P., McHugh, S.B., Lefèvre, L. et al. Integrating new memories into the hippocampal network activity space. Nat Neurosci 24, 326–330 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00804-w

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“By investigating the topology of neuronal co-activity, we found that mnemonic information spans multiple operational …

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How does the monarch butterfly brain encode goal direction?

M. Jerome Beetz, Christian Kraus, Basil el Jundi. Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly brain. bioRxiv 2022.10.15.512348; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.15.512348

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“Neural processing of a navigational goal requires the continuous comparison between the current heading and …

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How does the nervous system generate movement?

Henrik Lindén, Peter C. Petersen, Mikkel Vestergaard & Rune W. Berg. Movement is governed by rotational neural dynamics in spinal motor networks. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05293-w

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“Although the generation of movements is a fundamental function of the nervous …

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