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Yanjun Sun, Douglas A Nitz, Xiangmin Xu, Lisa M Giocomo. The subiculum encodes environmental geometry. bioRxiv 2023.05.07.539721; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.07.539721
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“Corners are a cardinal feature of many of the complex environmental geometries found in the natural world but …
Simone Coppolino, Michele Migliore. An explainable artificial intelligence approach to spatial navigation based on hippocampal circuitry. Neural Networks, Volume 163, June 2023, Pages 97-107.
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“Learning to navigate a complex environment is not a difficult task for a …
Anne Nagelhus, Sebastian O. Andersson, Soledad Gonzalo Cogno, Edvard I. Moser, May-Britt Moser. Object-centered population coding in CA1 of the hippocampus. Neuron 111, 1–14, 2023.
Summary
“Objects and landmarks are crucial for guiding navigation and must be integrated …
Laurenz Muessig, Fabio Ribeiro Rodrigues, Tale Bjerknes, Ben Towse, Caswell Barry, Neil Burgess, Edvard I. Moser, May-Britt Moser, Francesca Cacucci, Thomas J. Wills. The influence of environment geometry on subiculum boundary vector cells in adulthood and early development. bioRxiv …
Jalina A. Graham, Julie R. Dumont, Shawn S. Winter, Joel E. Brown, Patrick A. LaChance, Carly C. Amon, Kara B. Farnes, Ashlyn J. Morris, Nicholas A. Streltzov, Jeffrey S. Taube. Angular head velocity cells within brainstem nuclei projecting to the …
Celia M. Gagliardi, Marc E. Normandin, Alexandra T. Keinath, Joshua B. Julian, Matthew R. Lopez, Manuel-Miguel Ramos-Alvarez, Russell A. Epstein, and Isabel A. Muzzio. Distinct neural mechanisms for heading retrieval and context recognition in the hippocampus during spatial reorientation. …
Jeremy S. Biane, Max A. Ladow, Fabio Stefanini, Sayi P. Boddu, Austin Fan, Shazreh Hassan, Naz Dundar, Daniel L. Apodaca-Montano, Lexi Zichen Zhou, Varya Fayner, Nicholas I. Woods & Mazen A. Kheirbek. Neural dynamics underlying associative learning in the dorsal …
Mona M. Garvert, Tankred Saanum, Eric Schulz, Nicolas W. Schuck & Christian F. Doeller. Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. Nat Neurosci (2023).
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“The brain forms cognitive maps of relational knowledge—an organizing principle thought to underlie …
Zaki Ajabi, Alexandra T. Keinath, Xue-Xin Wei & Mark P. Brandon. Population dynamics of head-direction neurons during drift and reorientation. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05813-2
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“The head direction (HD) system functions as the brain’s internal compass1,2, classically formalized as a …
Raphael Heldman, Dongyan Pang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Yingxue Wang. A CA1 circuit motif that signals the start of information integration. bioRxiv 2023.03.12.532295; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.12.532295
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“Integrating information from the recent past is critical for guiding predictions and shaping behavior…
Wenbo Tang, Justin D. Shin, Shantanu P. Jadhav. Geometric transformation of cognitive maps for generalization across hippocampal-prefrontal circuits. Cell Reports 42, 112246, March 28, 2023.
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“The ability to abstract information to guide decisions during navigation across changing …
Daisuke Kawahara, Shigeyoshi Fujisawa. Estimation of animal location from grid cell population activity using persistent cohomology. bioRxiv 2023.01.10.523361; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.10.523361
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“Many cognitive functions are represented as cell assemblies. For example, the population activity of place cells in the …
Peter Mussells Pires, L.F. Abbott, Gaby Maimon. Converting an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal. bioRxiv 2022.11.10.516026; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.10.516026
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“Neuronal signals relevant for spatial navigation have been described in many species1–12, however, a circuit-level understanding of …
Eloy Parra-Barrero, Sandhiya Vijayabaskaran, Eddie Seabrook, Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng. A Map of Spatial Navigation for Neuroscience. 10.31219/osf.io/a86gq
“An animal’s ability to navigate space is crucial to its survival. It is also cognitively demanding, and relatively easy to probe. …
Jacobsen B, Kleven H, Gatome W, Las L, Ulanovsky N, Witter MP. Organization of projections from the entorhinal cortex to the hippocampal formation of the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus. Hippocampus. 2023 Mar 3.
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“The hippocampal formation …
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