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Gonzalez, Walter G., Hanwen Zhang, Anna Harutyunyan, and Carlos Lois. “Persistence of neuronal representations through time and damage in the hippocampus.” Science 23 Aug 2019:Vol. 365, Issue 6455, pp. 821-825 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav9199
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“How do neurons encode …
Chen, Xiaoli, Paula Vieweg, and Thomas Wolbers. “Computing distance information from landmarks and self-motion cues-Differential contributions of anterior-lateral vs. posterior-medial entorhinal cortex in humans.” NeuroImage (2019): 116074.
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“Landmarks and path integration cues are two important sources …
Jørgen Sugar and May‐Britt Moser. Episodic memory: Neuronal codes for what, where, and when. Hippocampus. 2019; 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23132
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“Episodic memory is defined as the ability to recall events in a spatiotemporal context. Formation of such memories is …
Jonathan Green, Vikram Vijayan, Peter Mussells Pires, Atsuko Adachi & Gaby Maimon. A neural heading estimate is compared with an internal goal to guide oriented navigation. Nature Neuroscience, 22 July 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0444-x
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“Goal-directed navigation is thought to …
A latest IEEE Spectrum Report titled ‘Robots Will Navigate the Moon With Maps They Make Themselves‘ by Prachi Patel has been published.
Astrobotic’s autonomous navigation will help lunar landers, rovers, and drones find their way on the moon. …
Andrew Alexander, Lucas Carstensen, James Hinman, Florian Raudies, G. William Chapman, Michael Hasselmo. Egocentric boundary vector tuning of the retrosplenial cortex. bioRxiv 702712; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/702712
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” The retrosplenial cortex is reciprocally connected with a majority of structures implicated …
Roddy M Grieves, Selim Jedidi-Ayoub, Karyna Mishchanchuk, Anyi Liu, Sophie Renaudineau, Kate J Jeffery. The place-cell representation of volumetric space in rats. bioRxiv 698175; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/698175
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“Place cells are spatially modulated neurons found in the hippocampus that underlie …
Patrick A. LaChance, Travis P. Todd, Jeffrey S. Taube. A sense of space in postrhinal cortex. Science 12 Jul 2019: Vol. 365, Issue 6449, eaax4192 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax4192
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“A topographic representation of local space is critical for navigation and …
Angelaki, Dora E., Julia Ng, Amada M. Abrego, Henry X. Cham, J. D. Dickman, and Jean Laurens. “A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain.” bioRxiv (2019): 570382.
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“Head direction cells in the mammalian limbic system are …
Dudchenko, Paul A., Emma R. Wood, and Anna Smith. “A new perspective on the head direction cell system and spatial behavior.” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2019).
Highlights
• Damage to the head direction circuit produces only modest impairments …
Kunz, Lukas, Liang Wang, Daniel Lachner-Piza, Hui Zhang, Armin Brandt, Matthias Dümpelmann, Peter C. Reinacher et al. “Hippocampal theta phases organize the reactivation of large-scale electrophysiological representations during goal-directed navigation.” Science Advances 5, no. 7 (2019): eaav8192.
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Humans are …
Cox, Brittney M., Conor D. Cox, Benjamin G. Gunn, Aliza A. Le, Victoria C. Inshishian, Christine M. Gall, and Gary Lynch. “Acquisition of temporal order requires an intact CA3 commissural/associational (C/A) feedback system in mice.” Communications Biology 2, no. 1 …
Ronny Rosner, Joss von Hadeln, Ghaith Tarawneh & Jenny C. A. Read. A neuronal correlate of insect stereopsis. Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 2845 (2019)
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A puzzle for neuroscience—and robotics—is how insects achieve surprisingly complex behaviours with …
State estimation in high dimensional space is a big challenge problem. Commonly, we use Lie group to implement 6DoF state estimation in 3D space. However, how does the brain implement path integration in 3D space based on neural dynamics?
Low …
Gallego, Juan A., Matthew G. Perich, Lee E. Miller, and Sara A. Solla. “Neural manifolds for the control of movement.” Neuron 94, no. 5 (2017): 978-984.
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The analysis of neural dynamics in several brain cortices has consistently …
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