Nils Nyberg, Éléonore Duvelle, Caswell Barry, Hugo J. Spiers. Spatial goal coding in the hippocampal formation. Neuron, January 14, 2022. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.12.012
Summary
“The mammalian hippocampal formation contains several distinct populations of neurons involved in representing self-position and orientation. These …
Kadjita Asumbisa, Adrien Peyrache, Stuart Trenholm. Flexible cue anchoring strategies enable stable head direction coding in both sighted and blind animals. bioRxiv 2022.01.12.476111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.12.476111
Abstract
“Vision plays a crucial role in instructing the brain’s spatial navigation systems…
Jean-Paul Noel and Dora E. Angelaki. Cognitive, Systems, and Computational Neurosciences of the Self in Motion. Annual Review of Psychology. Vol. 73:103-129 (Volume publication date January 2022). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-021021-103038
Abstract
“Navigating by path integration requires continuously estimating one’s self-motion. …
Richard J. Gardner, Erik Hermansen, Marius Pachitariu, Yoram Burak, Nils A. Baas, Benjamin A. Dunn, May-Britt Moser & Edvard I. Moser. Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04268-7
Abstract
“The medial entorhinal cortex is part …
Wenbo Tang and Shantanu P. Jadhav. Multiple-Timescale Representations of Space: Linking Memory to Navigation. Annual Review of Neuroscience. Vol. 45:- (Volume publication date July 2022). Review in Advance first posted online on December 22, 2021. (Changes may still …
Lynn Nadel. The hippocampal formation and action at a distance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2021, 118 (51) e2119670118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2119670118
“Why is it that the same neural system is so intimately involved in aspects …
Cheng Lyu, L. F. Abbott & Gaby Maimon. Building an allocentric travelling direction signal via vector computation. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04067-0
Abstract
“Many behavioural tasks require the manipulation of mathematical vectors, but, outside of computational models1,2,3,4,5,6,7, it is not known …
Cindy Poo, Gautam Agarwal, Niccolò Bonacchi & Zachary F. Mainen. Spatial maps in piriform cortex during olfactory navigation. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04242-3
Abstract
“Odours are a fundamental part of the sensory environment used by animals to guide behaviours such …
Eivind Hennestad, Aree Witoelar, Anna R. Chambers, Koen Vervaeke. Mapping vestibular and visual contributions to angular head velocity tuning in the cortex. Cell Reports, Volume 37, Issue 12, 2021, 110134.
Summary
“Neurons that signal the angular velocity of …
M. Jerome Beetz, Christian Kraus, Myriam Franzke, Eric J. Warrant, Christine Merlin, Basil el Jundi. Flight-induced compass representation in the monarch butterfly heading network. Current Biology, 2021, Published:November 24, 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.009
Summary
“For navigation, animals use a robust internal …
Iva K. Brunec and Ida Momennejad. Predictive Representations in Hippocampal and Prefrontal Hierarchies. Journal of Neuroscience 19 November 2021, JN-RM-1327-21; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1327-21.2021
Abstract
“As we navigate the world, we use learned representations of relational structures to explore and to …
Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Edward F. Bracey, Richard A. Faville, Dario Campagner, Adam L. Tyson, Stephen C. Lenzi, Tiago Branco, Troy W. Margrie. Multisensory coding of angular head velocity in the retrosplenial cortex. Neuron, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.10.031.
Summary
“To successfully navigate …
Raunak Basu, Robert Gebauer, Tim Herfurth, Simon Kolb, Zahra Golipour, Tatjana Tchumatchenko & Hiroshi T. Ito. The orbitofrontal cortex maps future navigational goals. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04042-9
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“Accurate navigation to a desired goal requires consecutive estimates of spatial …
Arpit Agarwal, Ayelet Sarel, Dori Derdikman, Nachum Ulanovsky, Yoram Gutfreund. Spatial coding in the hippocampus of flying owls. bioRxiv 2021.10.24.465553; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.24.465553
Abstract
“The elucidation of spatial coding in the hippocampus requires exploring diverse animal species. While robust place-cells …
Mao, Dun, Eric Avila, Baptiste Caziot, Jean Laurens, J. David Dickman, and Dora E. Angelaki. “Spatial modulation of hippocampal activity in freely moving macaques.” Neuron (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.09.032
Summary
“The hippocampal formation is linked to spatial navigation, but …
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