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What’s the mechanism of spatial periodic computation of hippocampus-entorhinal circuit in navigation?

Bo Zhang, Jia Liu. The spatial periodic computation of hippocampus-entorhinal circuit in navigation. bioRxiv 2022.01.29.478346; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.29.478346

Summary
“To achieve the computational goal of navigating in both physical and mental spaces, human brain employs a cognitive map constructed by …

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What’s the mechanisms and function of grid cells in cognition?

Ling L. Dong, and Ila R. Fiete. Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2024. 47:345–68. 

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“The activity patterns of grid cells form distinctively regular triangular lattices over the explored spatial environment and are …

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How the hippocampus represents different spaces?

Fenton, A.A. Remapping revisited: how the hippocampus represents different spaces. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-024-00817-x

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The representation of distinct spaces by hippocampal place cells has been linked to changes in their place fields (the locations in the …

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How to build a bio-inspired hardware implementation of an analog spike-based hippocampus memory model?

Daniel Casanueva-Morato, Alvaro Ayuso-Martinez, Giacomo Indiveri, J P Dominguez-Morales,Gabriel Jimenez-Moreno. A bio-inspired hardware implementation of an analog spike-based hippocampus memory model. TechRxiv. April 03, 2024. DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.171216721.14143739/v1

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“The need for processing at the edge the increasing amount of …

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How does the brain select what to remember during sleep?

Wannan Yang, Chen Sun, Roman Huszár, Thomas Hainmueller, Kirill Kiselev, György Buzsáki. “Selection of experience for memory by hippocampal sharp wave ripple.” Science 383, 1478-1483 (2024).

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Experiences need to be tagged during learning for further

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How hippocampal activity encodes numerous memories of specific events in life?

Selmaan N. Chettih,Emily L. Mackevicius,Stephanie Hale,Dmitriy Aronov. Barcoding of episodic memories in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird. Cell, March 29, 2024.  DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.02.032

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The hippocampus is critical for episodic memory. Although hippocampal activity represents place and …

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How egocentric coding properties arise from its presynaptic inputs, and how egocentric cells represent items across different behavioral contexts?

Cheng, Ning, Qiqi Dong, Zhen Zhang, Li Wang, Xiaojing Chen, and Cheng Wang. “Egocentric processing of items in spines, dendrites, and somas in the retrosplenial cortex.” Neuron (2023).

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“Egocentric representations of external items are essential for spatial …

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How the medial entorhinal cortex develops during learning and influences memory?

Malone, T.J., Tien, NW., Ma, Y. et al. A consistent map in the medial entorhinal cortex supports spatial memoryNat Commun 15, 1457 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45853-4

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The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) is hypothesized to function as a

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How place cells use environmental cues to resolve the ambiguity of arotationally symmetric environment?

Cheng, Han Yin, Dorothy W. Overington, and Kate J. Jeffery. “A configural context signal simultaneously but separably drives positioning and orientation of hippocampal place fields.” Hippocampus 34.2 (2024): 73-87.

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Effective self-localization requires that the brain can

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Whether associative memory involves temporally correlated spiking of medial temporal lobe (MTL) neurons that exhibit stimulus-specific tuning?

Kunz, L., Staresina, B.P., Reinacher, P.C. et al. Ripple-locked coactivity of stimulus-specific neurons and human associative memory. Nat Neurosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01550-x

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“Associative memory enables the encoding and retrieval of relations between different stimuli. To better understand its neural …

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How to convert an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal?

Mussells Pires, P., Zhang, L., Parache, V. et al. Converting an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-07006-3

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“Neuronal signals that are relevant for spatial navigation have been described in many species1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. However, a circuit-level

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Whether the entorhinal cortex integrates relational information about changing values during prospective decision making using a grid-like representation of an abstract value space?

Nitsch, A., Garvert, M.M., Bellmund, J.L.S. et al. Grid-like entorhinal representation of an abstract value space during prospective decision makingNat Commun 15, 1198 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45127-z

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How valuable a choice option is often changes over time,

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How subfield-specific interneuron circuits govern the hippocampal response to novelty in male mice

Hainmueller, T., Cazala, A., Huang, LW. et al. Subfield-specific interneuron circuits govern the hippocampal response to novelty in male mice. Nat Commun 15, 714 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44882-3

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“The hippocampus is the brain’s center for episodic memories. Its subregions, the …

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How to implement distinct manifold encoding of navigational information in the subiculum and hippocampus?

Shinya Nakai, Takuma Kitanishi, Kenji Mizuseki. Distinct manifold encoding of navigational information in the subiculum and hippocampus. Science Advances, 10,eadi4471(2024).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adi4471

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The subiculum (SUB) plays a crucial role in spatial navigation and encodes navigational information differently from the

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How grid cells perform path integration in multiple reference frames during self-motion-based navigation?

Jing-Jie Peng, Beate Throm, Maryam Najafian Jazi, Ting-Yun Yen, Hannah Monyer, Kevin Allen. Grid cells perform path integration in multiple reference frames during self-motion-based navigation. bioRxiv 2023.12.21.572857; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.21.572857

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“With their periodic firing pattern, grid cells are considered

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