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 …
Michael E. Hasselmo, Patrick A. LaChance, Jennifer C. Robinson, Samantha L. Malmberg, Mahir Patel, Elaina Gross, Danielle E. Everett, Shruthi Sankaranarayanan, Jiarui Fang. How does the response of egocentric boundary cells depend upon the coordinate system of environmental features? bioRxiv …
Marco Uytiepo†, Yongchuan Zhu†, Eric Bushong, Katherine Chou, Filip Souza Polli, Elise Zhao,Keun-Young Kim, Danielle Luu, Lyanne Chang, Dong Yang, Tsz Ching Ma, Mingi Kim, Yuting Zhang,Grant Walton, Tom Quach, Matthias Haberl, Luca Patapoutian, Arya Shahbazi, Yuxuan Zhang,Elizabeth Beutter, Weiheng …
Martin Seeber, Matthias Stangl, Mauricio Vallejo Martelo, Uros Topalovic, Sonja Hiller, Casey H. Halpern, Jean-Philippe Langevin, Vikram R. Rao, Itzhak Fried, Dawn Eliashiv & Nanthia Suthana. Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02119-3…
Jacob J. W. Bakermans, Joseph Warren, James C. R. Whittington & Timothy E. J. Behrens. Constructing future behavior in the hippocampal formation through composition and replay. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01908-3
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“The hippocampus is critical for memory, imagination …
Khona, M., Chandra, S. & Fiete, I. Global modules robustly emerge from local interactions and smooth gradients. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08541-3
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“Modular structure and function are ubiquitous in biology, from the organization of animal brains and bodies to the …
Andrew F. Siliciano, Sun Minni, Chad Morton, Charles K. Dowell, Noelle B. Eghbali, Juliana Y. Rhee, L. F. Abbott, Vanessa Ruta. A vector-based strategy for olfactory navigation in Drosophila. bioRxiv 2025.02.15.638426; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.15.638426
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“Odors serve as essential cues …
Sun, W., Winnubst, J., Natrajan, M. et al. Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08548-w
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“Cognitive maps confer animals with flexible intelligence by representing spatial, temporal and abstract relationships that can be …
Abraham Z. Vollan, Richard J. Gardner, May-Britt Moser & Edvard I. Moser. Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08527-1
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“Place cells in the hippocampus and grid cells in the entorhinal cortex are elements …
Saikat Ray, Itay Yona, Nadav Elami, Shaked Palgi, Kenneth W. Latimer, Bente Jacobsen, Menno P. Witter, Liora Las, and Nachum Ulanovsky. Hippocampal coding of identity, sex, hierarchy, and affiliation in a social group of wild fruit bats. Science 387,eadk9385(2025). …
Amany Azevedo Amin, Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham. Ant visual route navigation: How the fine details of behaviour promote successful route performance and convergence. bioRxiv 2025.01.16.633342; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.16.633342
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“Individually foraging ants use egocentric views as a dominant navigation strategy …
Sarthak Chandra, Sugandha Sharma, Rishidev Chaudhuri & Ila Fiete. Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08392-y
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“Hippocampal circuits in the brain enable two distinct cognitive functions: the construction of spatial maps for …
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