Category: Neural Basis of Navigation

How retrosplenial cortex computes heading direction from landmark information?

Eleonora Lomi, Kate Jeffery, Anna Mitchell. Convergence of direction, location and theta in the rat anteroventral thalamic nucleus. bioRxiv 2023.01.11.523585; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.11.523585

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Retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is a cortical region that computes heading direction from landmark information, but

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How the hippocampus incorporates new contextual information into a previously formed and stabilized spatial representation?

Jake Ormond, Simon A. Serka, Joshua P. Johansen. Enhanced reactivation of remapping place cells during aversive learning. Journal of Neuroscience 3 January 2023, JN-RM-1450-22; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1450-22.2022

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Study of the hippocampal place cell system has greatly enhanced our

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Whether hippocampal time cells represent context-dependent experience or time per se?

David B. Omer, Liora Las & Nachum Ulanovsky. Contextual and pure time coding for self and other in the hippocampus. Nat Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01226-y

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“Navigation and episodic memory depend critically on representing temporal sequences. Hippocampal ‘time cells’ form

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How hippocampal neural circuits achieve efficient spatial representations using dynamic hyperbolic geometry?

Huanqiu Zhang, P. Dylan Rich, Albert K. Lee & Tatyana O. Sharpee. Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience. Nat Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01212-4

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Daily experience suggests that we perceive distances near us linearly.

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What’s the neural coding of 3D spatial location, orientation, and action selection in echolocating bats?

Salles, Angeles, Melville J. Wohlgemuth, and Cynthia F. Moss. “Neural coding of 3D spatial location, orientation, and action selection in echolocating bats.” Trends in Neurosciences (2022).

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“Echolocating bats are among the only mammals capable of powered flight, …

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What’s the role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps?

Kauê Machado Costa, Robert Scholz, Kevin Lloyd, Perla Moreno-Castilla, Matthew P. H. Gardner, Peter Dayan & Geoffrey Schoenbaum. The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps. Nat Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01216-0

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We use mental models

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How the escape circuit incorporates spatial information to execute rapid flights along the most efficient route to shelter?

Dario Campagner, Ruben Vale, Yu Lin Tan, Panagiota Iordanidou, Oriol Pavón Arocas, Federico Claudi, A. Vanessa Stempel, Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Rasmus S. Petersen, Troy W. Margrie & Tiago Branco. A cortico-collicular circuit for orienting to shelter during escapeNature (2022). …

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