William A. Liberti III, Tobias A. Schmid, Angelo Forli, Madeleine Snyder & Michael M. Yartsev. A stable hippocampal code in freely flying bats. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04560-0
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“Neural activity in the hippocampus is known to reflect how animals move …
Kevin K. Sit, Michael J. Goard. Coregistration of heading to visual cues in retrosplenial cortex. bioRxiv 2022.03.25.485865; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.25.485865
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“Spatial cognition depends on an accurate representation of orientation within an environment. Head direction cells in distributed brain regions …
Grigori Guitchounts, William Lotter, Joel Dapello, David Cox. Stable 3D Head Direction Signals in the Primary Visual Cortex. bioRxiv 2020.09.04.283762; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.04.283762
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“Visual signals influence the brain’s computation of spatial position and orientation. Accordingly, the primary …
Hagbi Z, Eilam D (2022) On heights and plains: How rodents from different habitats cope with three-dimensional environments? PLoS ONE 17(3): e0265176. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265176
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“Dwelling in a specific habitat requires adaptation to the habitat physical and biological properties in order …
Mou, Xiang, Abhishekh Pokhrel, Prakul Suresh, and Daoyun Ji. “Observational learning promotes hippocampal remote awake replay toward future reward locations.” Neuron, Volume 110, Issue 5, 2 March 2022, Pages 891-902.e7
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“The neural circuit mechanisms underlying observational …
LaChance PA, Graham J, Shapiro BL, Morris AJ, Taube JS. Landmark-modulated directional coding in postrhinal cortex. Science Advances 2022 Jan 28;8(4):eabg8404. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abg8404.
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“Visual landmarks can anchor an animal’s internal sense of orientation to the external world…
John Widloski, David J. Foster. Flexible rerouting of hippocampal replay sequences around changing barriers in the absence of global place field remapping. Neuron, 2022, 110, 1–12.
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“Flexibility is a hallmark of memories that depend on the hippocampus. For …
Takahashi, Susumu, Takumi Hombe, Sakiko Matsumoto, Kaoru Ide, and Ken Yoda. “Head direction cells in a migratory bird prefer north.” Science Advances 8, no. 5 (2022): eabl6848.
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“Animals exhibit remarkable navigation abilities as if they have an …
Sebnem N. Tuncdemir, Andres D. Grosmark, Gergely F. Turi, Amei Shank, John C. Bowler, Gokhan Ordek, Attila Losonczy, Rene Hen, Clay O. Lacefield. Parallel processing of sensory cue and spatial information in the dentate gyrus. Cell Reports, Volume 38, …
Chinmay S. Purandare, Shonali Dhingra, Rodrigo Rios, Cliff Vuong, Thuc To, Ayaka Hachisuka, Krishna Choudhary & Mayank R. Mehta. Moving bar of light evokes vectorial spatial selectivity in the immobile rat hippocampus. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04404-x
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“Visual cortical neurons …
James C.R. Whittington, David McCaffary, Jacob J.W. Bakermans, Timothy E.J. Behrens. How to build a cognitive map: insights from models of the hippocampal formation. arXiv:2202.01682 [q-bio.NC], 2022.
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“Learning and interpreting the structure of the environment is an innate …
Aaron D Milstein, Yiding Li, Katie C Bittner, Christine Grienberger, Ivan Soltesz, Jeffrey C Magee, Sandro Romani. Bidirectional synaptic plasticity rapidly modifies hippocampal representations. eLife 2021;10:e73046 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.73046
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“Learning requires neural adaptations thought to be mediated by activity-dependent …
Mathew T. Summers, Marla B. Feller. Distinct Inhibitory Pathways Control Velocity and Directional Tuning in the Retina. bioRxiv 2022.01.13.476257; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.13.476257
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“The sensory periphery is responsible for detecting ethologically relevant features of the external world, using compact, predominantly …
Marcelo G. Mattar, Máté Lengyel. Planning in the brain. Neuron, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.12.018.
Summary
“Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled machines to plan in tasks previously thought to be uniquely human. Meanwhile, the planning algorithms implemented by the …
Olesia M Bilash, Spyridon Chavlis, Panayiota Poirazi, Jayeeta Basu. Lateral entorhinal cortex inputs modulate hippocampal dendritic excitability by recruiting a local disinhibitory microcircuit. bioRxiv 2022.01.13.476247; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.13.476247
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“The lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) provides information about multi-sensory environmental …
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