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“Neurons can collectively represent the current sensory experience during exploration …

Nora S. Newcombe, Ken Cheng. Challenges in Navigation Research: Mapping New Directions. Springer, 2026. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-20563-6
“This open access book presents a multidisciplinary synthesis of research on animal navigation, integrating perspectives from behavior, neuroscience, and ecology to advance understanding of …
Harris, B., Gong, P. Nested spatiotemporal theta–gamma waves organize hierarchical processing across the mouse visual cortex. Nat Commun 17, 2629 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68893-4
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“The brain processes visual information across diverse spatial and temporal scales, but the dynamics that …
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Michael Milford and Tobias Fischer. Going Places: Place Recognition in Artificial and Natural Systems. Annu. Rev. Control Robot. Auton. Syst. 2026. 9:7.1-7.27:1–28. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-control-032724-014418
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“Place recognition—the ability to identify previously visited locations—is critical for both biological navigation and …
Alexander Attinger, Antonia Drinnenberg, Can Dong, Charu Ramakrishnan, La’Akea Siverts, Tanya L Daigle, Bosiljka Tasic, Hongkui Zeng, Sean Quirin, Karl Deisseroth, Lisa M Giocomo. Environmental Novelty Modulates Rapid Cortical Plasticity During Navigation.
bioRxiv 2025.10.21.683723; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.21.683723
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“In …
O’Keefe J. How the Hippocampal Cognitive Map Supports Flexible Navigation. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 2025 Apr 8;48.
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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 …
Climer, J.R., Davoudi, H., Oh, J.Y. et al. Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments. Nature 645, 457–465 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09245-y
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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 …
Siddharth Jayakumar, Nicola Rigolli, Mackenzie W Mathis, Massimo Vergassola, Alexander Mathis, Venkatesh N Murthy. Mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies. bioRxiv 2025.08.27.672631; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.27.672631
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“Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide …
Sueoka, Y., Jayakumar, R.P., Madhav, M.S. et al. Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02038-6
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“Theta oscillation is considered a temporal scaffold for hippocampal computations that …
Basnak, M.A., Kutschireiter, A., Okubo, T.S. et al. Multimodal cue integration and learning in a neural representation of head direction. Nat Neurosci 28, 1729–1740 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01823-z
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“Navigation requires us to take account of multiple spatial cues …
Hannah L. Payne & Dmitriy Aronov. Remote activation of place codes by gaze in a highly visual animal. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09101-z
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“Vision enables many animals to perform spatial reasoning from remote locations1. By viewing distant landmarks, …
Sachin P. Vaidya, Guanchun Li, Raymond A. Chitwood, Yiding Li & Jeffrey C. Magee. Formation of an expanding memory representation in the hippocampus. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01986-3
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“How brain networks connected by labile synapses store new information …
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