Brain Inspired Navigation Blog
Marco Uytiepo†, Yongchuan Zhu†, Eric Bushong, Katherine Chou, Filip Souza Polli, Elise Zhao,Keun-Young Kim, Danielle Luu, Lyanne Chang, Dong Yang, Tsz Ching Ma, Mingi Kim, Yuting Zhang,Grant Walton, Tom Quach, Matthias Haberl, Luca Patapoutian, Arya Shahbazi, Yuxuan Zhang,Elizabeth Beutter, Weiheng …
Martin Seeber, Matthias Stangl, Mauricio Vallejo Martelo, Uros Topalovic, Sonja Hiller, Casey H. Halpern, Jean-Philippe Langevin, Vikram R. Rao, Itzhak Fried, Dawn Eliashiv & Nanthia Suthana. Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02119-3…
Jacob J. W. Bakermans, Joseph Warren, James C. R. Whittington & Timothy E. J. Behrens. Constructing future behavior in the hippocampal formation through composition and replay. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01908-3
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“The hippocampus is critical for memory, imagination …
Khona, M., Chandra, S. & Fiete, I. Global modules robustly emerge from local interactions and smooth gradients. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08541-3
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“Modular structure and function are ubiquitous in biology, from the organization of animal brains and bodies to the …
Andrew F. Siliciano, Sun Minni, Chad Morton, Charles K. Dowell, Noelle B. Eghbali, Juliana Y. Rhee, L. F. Abbott, Vanessa Ruta. A vector-based strategy for olfactory navigation in Drosophila. bioRxiv 2025.02.15.638426; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.15.638426
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“Odors serve as essential cues …
Sehgal, M., Filho, D.A., Kastellakis, G. et al. Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01876-8
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“Events occurring close in time are often linked in memory…
Sun, W., Winnubst, J., Natrajan, M. et al. Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08548-w
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“Cognitive maps confer animals with flexible intelligence by representing spatial, temporal and abstract relationships that can be …
Abraham Z. Vollan, Richard J. Gardner, May-Britt Moser & Edvard I. Moser. Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08527-1
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“Place cells in the hippocampus and grid cells in the entorhinal cortex are elements …
Saikat Ray, Itay Yona, Nadav Elami, Shaked Palgi, Kenneth W. Latimer, Bente Jacobsen, Menno P. Witter, Liora Las, and Nachum Ulanovsky. Hippocampal coding of identity, sex, hierarchy, and affiliation in a social group of wild fruit bats. Science 387,eadk9385(2025). …
Amany Azevedo Amin, Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham. Ant visual route navigation: How the fine details of behaviour promote successful route performance and convergence. bioRxiv 2025.01.16.633342; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.16.633342
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“Individually foraging ants use egocentric views as a dominant navigation strategy …
Sarthak Chandra, Sugandha Sharma, Rishidev Chaudhuri & Ila Fiete. Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08392-y
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“Hippocampal circuits in the brain enable two distinct cognitive functions: the construction of spatial maps for …
Hongyu Chang, Wenbo Tang, Annabella M. Wulf, Thokozile Nyasulu, Madison E. Wolf, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz & Azahara Oliva. Sleep microstructure organizes memory replay. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08340-w
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“Recently acquired memories are reactivated in the hippocampus during sleep, an initial step …
Angelo Forli, Michael M. Yartsev. Understanding the neural basis of natural intelligence. Cell, 2024, Volume 187, Issue 21, 5833 – 5837
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“Understanding the neural basis of natural intelligence necessitates a paradigm shift: from strict reductionism toward …
Gonzalez, K.C., Negrean, A., Liao, Z. et al. Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08325-9
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“A central question in neuroscience is how synaptic plasticity shapes the feature selectivity of neurons in behaving animals1. …
Jake F. Watson, Victor Vargas-Barroso, Rebecca J. Morse-Mora, Andrea Navas-Olive, Mojtaba R. Tavakoli, Johann G. Danzl, Matthias Tomschik, Karl Rössler, Peter Jonas. Human hippocampal CA3 uses specific functional connectivity rules for efficient associative memory. Cell, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.11.022
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Brain Inspired Navigation Blog
New discovery worth spreading on brain-inspired navigation in neurorobotics and neuroscience