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“During navigation to a goal, a portion of the hippocampal place cells exhibit directional preferences, firing more in some directions than …
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“Experiments that track hippocampal place cells in mice navigating the same real environment have found significant changes in …
Dominique Siegenthaler, Henry Denny, Sofía Skromne Carrasco, Johanna Luise Mayer, Daniel Levenstein,Adrien Peyrache, Stuart Trenholm, Émilie Macé. Visual objects refine head direction coding. Science, 389,eadu9828(2025).DOI:10.1126/science.adu9828
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“Animals use visual objects to guide navigation-related behaviors. However, visual object–preferring …
Manuel Valero, Pablo Abad-Perez, Andrea Gallardo, Marta Picco, Raquel García-Hernandez, Jorge Brotons, Anel Martínez-Félix, Robert Machold, Bernardo Rudy, György Buzsáki. Cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code. Science 389,eadv5638(2025). DOI:10.1126/science.adv5638
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“Identifying the computational roles …
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“Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide …
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“Theta oscillation is considered a temporal scaffold for hippocampal computations that …
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“Navigation requires us to take account of multiple spatial cues …
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“Vision enables many animals to perform spatial reasoning from remote locations1. By viewing distant landmarks, …
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“How brain networks connected by labile synapses store new information …
Yicheng Zheng (征亦诚), Xinyu Zhou (周信羽), Shawn C. Moseley, Sydney M. Ragsdale, Leslie J. Alday, Wei Wu (吴畏), Aaron A. Wilber. A Hippocampal–Parietal Network for Reference Frame Coordination. Journal of Neuroscience 23 April 2025, 45 (17) e1782242025; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1782-24.2025…
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“Stereo olfaction, the difference in odor concentration between the two nostrils, has been …
Nada El Mahmoudi, Francesca Lanzarini, Farzad Ziaie Nezhad, Deepak Surendran, Jean Laurens. From Exploration to Structured Navigation: Learning Dynamics of Freely Moving Marmosets during Foraging. bioRxiv 2025.03.22.644580; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.22.644580
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“Spatial memory plays a crucial role in guiding …
Yicheng Zheng (征亦诚), Xinyu Zhou (周信羽), Shawn C. Moseley, Sydney M. Ragsdale, Leslie J. Alday, Wei Wu (吴畏) and Aaron A. Wilber. A Hippocampal-parietal Network for Reference Frame Coordination. Journal of Neuroscience, 5 February 2025, e1782242025; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1782-24.2025
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“Navigating …
Kyle Jasmin, Max Bullock, Frederic Dick, Roger Atkins, Roberto Bottini, Federica Sigismondi, Adam Tierney. Spatial coding supports auditory conceptual navigation. bioRxiv 2025.02.04.636440; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.04.636440
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“Grid cells in human entorhinal cortex encode spatial layouts for real-world navigation, yet …
Daniel Shani, Peter Dayan. Composing egocentric and allocentric maps for flexible navigation. bioRxiv 2025.01.24.634748; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.24.634748
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“Egocentric representations of the environment have historically been relegated to being used only for simple forms of spatial behaviour such as …
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