Brain Inspired Navigation Blog
Sebastian Schwarz, Leo Clement, Evripides Gkanias, Antoine Wystrach. How do backward walking ants (Cataglyphis velox) cope with navigational uncertainty? bioRxiv 2019.12.16.877704; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.16.877704
ABSTRACT
“Current opinion in insect navigation assumes that animals need to align with the goal direction to …
Bos, Jeroen J., Martin Vinck, Pietro Marchesi, Amos Keestra, Laura A. van Mourik-Donga, Jadin C. Jackson, Paul FMJ Verschure, and Cyriel MA Pennartz. “Multiplexing of Information about Self and Others in Hippocampal Ensembles.” Cell Reports 29, no. 12 …
Christian Leibold. A Model for Navigation in Unknown Environments Based on a Reservoir of Hippocampal Sequences.
bioRxiv 2019.12.18.880583; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.18.880583
Abstract
“Hippocampal place cell populations are activated in sequences on multiple time scales during active behavior, resting and sleep …
Xu Z, Wu W, Winter SS, Mehlman ML, Butler WN, Simmons CM, Harvey RE, Berkowitz LE, Chen Y, Taube JS, Wilber AA and Clark BJ (2019) A Comparison of Neural Decoding Methods and Population Coding Across Thalamo-Cortical Head Direction Cells…
Gao, Ruiqi & Xie, Jianwen & Zhu, Song & Wu, Yingnian. Learning Grid Cells as Vector Representation of Self-Position Coupled with Matrix Representation of Self-Motion. ICLR 2019
Abstract
“This paper proposes a representational model for grid cells. In …
Markus Frey, Sander Tanni, Catherine Perrodin, Alice O’Leary, Matthias Nau, Jack Kelly, Andrea Banino, Christian F Doeller, Caswell Barry. DeepInsight: A general framework for interpreting wide-band neural activity. bioRxiv 871848; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/871848
Abstract
“Rapid progress in technologies such as …
Derek J. Huffman, Arne D. Ekstrom, A Modality-Independent Network Underlies the Retrieval of Large-Scale Spatial Environments in the Human Brain, Neuron, Volume 104, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 611-622.e7, ISSN 0896-6273, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.012.
Abstract
“In humans, the extent to which …
Hagbi, Z., Dorfman, A., Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, E. et al. “It’s all in their head”: hierarchical exploration of a three-dimensional layered pyramid in rats. Anim Cogn (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-019-01332-8
Abstract
“Wayfinding in a three-dimensional (3D) environment is intricate, and surface-bounded animals …
Ioannis Pisokas, Stanley Heinze, Barbara Webb. The heading direction circuit of two insect species. bioRxiv 854521; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/854521
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Recent studies of the Central Complex in the brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have identified neurons with localised …
Shine, J.P., Valdés-Herrera, J.P., Tempelmann, C. et al. Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculum. Nat Commun 10, 4004 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11802-9
Abstract
“In rodents, cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (EC) …
Xiaoli Chen, Paula Vieweg, Thomas Wolbers.Computing distance information from landmarks and self-motion cues – Differential contributions of anterior-lateral vs. posterior-medial entorhinal cortex in humans. NeuroImage, Volume 202,2019, 116074, ISSN 1053-8119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116074.
Abstract
“Landmarks and path integration cues are …
Alexander Jones, Andrew Rush, Cory Merkel, Eric Herrmann, Ajey P. Jacob, Clare Thiem, Rashmi Jha. A neuromorphic SLAM architecture using gated-memristive synapses. Neurocomputing, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.09.098.
Abstract
“Navigation in GPS-denied environments is a critical challenge for autonomous mobile platforms …
Roy, K., Jaiswal, A. & Panda, P. Towards spike-based machine intelligence with neuromorphic computing. Nature 575, 607–617 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1677-2
Abstract
“Guided by brain-like ‘spiking’ computational frameworks, neuromorphic computing—brain-inspired computing for machine intelligence—promises to realize artificial intelligence while reducing the …
Cheng Wang, Xiaojing Chen, James J Knierim. Egocentric and allocentric representations of space in the rodent brain, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 60, 2020, Pages 12-20,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.11.005.
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“Spatial signals are prevalent within the hippocampus and its neighboring regions. It …
Yvette E. Fisher, Jenny Lu, Isabel D’Alessandro & Rachel I. Wilson . Sensorimotor experience remaps visual input to a heading-direction network. Nature (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1772-4
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“In the Drosophila brain, ‘compass’ neurons track the orientation of the body and head …
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