Brain Inspired Navigation Blog
J. P. Shine, T. Wolbers. Global and Local Head Direction Coding in the Human Brain. bioRxiv 2021.10.11.463872; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.11.463872
Abstract
“Orientation-specific head direction (HD) cells increase their firing rate to indicate one’s facing direction in the environment. Rodent studies …
Mao, Dun, Eric Avila, Baptiste Caziot, Jean Laurens, J. David Dickman, and Dora E. Angelaki. “Spatial modulation of hippocampal activity in freely moving macaques.” Neuron (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.09.032
Summary
“The hippocampal formation is linked to spatial navigation, but …
Dustin Fetterhoff, Andrey Sobolev, Christian Leibold. Graded remapping of hippocampal ensembles under sensory conflicts. Cell Reports, Volume 36, Issue 11, 2021.
Summary
“Hippocampal place cells are thought to constitute a cognitive map of space derived from multimodal sensory …
Moser M (2021) How Do We Find Our Way? Grid Cells in the Brain. Front. Young Minds. 9:678725. doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.678725
ABSTRACT
“Navigation in the environment, getting from one place to another, is one of the most fundamental and …
Evan S Schaffer, Neeli Mishra, Matthew R Whiteway, Wenze Li, Michelle B Vancura, Jason Freedman, Kripa B Patel, Venkatakaushik Voleti, Liam Paninski, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, LF Abbott, Richard Axel. Flygenvectors: The spatial and temporal structure of neural activity across …
Alessandro Toso, Sebastian Reinartz, Francesca Pulecchi, Mathew E. Diamond. Time coding in rat dorsolateral striatum. Neuron, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.08.020.
Summary
“To assess the role of dorsolateral striatum (DLS) in time coding, we recorded neuronal activity in rats tasked with …
Misun Kim, Christian F. Doeller. Adaptive cognitive maps for curved surfaces in the 3D world. bioRxiv 2021.08.30.458179; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.30.458179
Abstract
“Terrains in a 3D world can be undulating. Yet, most prior research has exclusively investigated spatial representations on a …
Xuelong Sun, Shigang Yue, Michael Mangan. How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation. bioRxiv 2021.08.18.456777; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.18.456777
Abstract
“The central complex of the insect midbrain is thought to coordinate insect guidance strategies. Computational models can account for …
Ningyu Zhang, Roddy M Grieves, Kate J Jeffery. Environment symmetry drives a multidirectional code in rat retrosplenial cortex. bioRxiv 2021.08.22.457261; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.22.457261
Abstract
“A class of neurons showing bidirectional tuning in a two-compartment environment was recently discovered in …
Gily Ginosar, Johnatan Aljadeff, Yoram Burak, Haim Sompolinsky, Liora Las & Nachum Ulanovsky. Locally ordered representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortex. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03783-x
Abstract
“As animals navigate on a two-dimensional surface, neurons in the medial entorhinal …
Grieves, R.M., Jedidi-Ayoub, S., Mishchanchuk, K. et al. Irregular distribution of grid cell firing fields in rats exploring a 3D volumetric space. Nat Neurosci (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00907-4
Abstract
“We investigated how entorhinal grid cells encode volumetric space. On a …
Lukas Kunz, Armin Brandt, Peter C. Reinacher, Bernhard P. Staresina, Eric T. Reifenstein, Christoph T. Weidemann, Nora A. Herweg, Ansh Patel, Melina Tsitsiklis, Richard Kempter, Michael J. Kahana, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Joshua Jacobs. A neural code for egocentric spatial maps in …
Nicholas M. Dotson and Michael M. Yartsev. Nonlocal spatiotemporal representation in the hippocampus of freely flying bats. SCIENCE 09 JUL 2021 : 242-247
“The neural code for 3D map–based navigation in area CA1 of bats forms a continuum through …
Sosa, M., Giocomo, L.M. Navigating for reward. Nat Rev Neurosci (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00479-z
Abstract
“An organism’s survival can depend on its ability to recall and navigate to spatial locations associated with rewards, such as food or a home. …
Sevan K. Harootonian, Arne D. Ekstrom, Robert C. Wilson. Combination and competition between path integration and landmark navigation in the estimation of heading direction. bioRxiv 2021.06.30.450548; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.30.450548
Abstract
“Successful navigation requires the ability to compute one’s location …
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