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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
Summary
“Path integration is a computational strategy that allows an animal to maintain an internal estimate of its position relative to a …
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
Abstract
“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
Abstract
“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
Abstract
“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.
Summary
“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 …
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