Category: Neural Basis of Navigation

How brain hippocampal circuits represent switches between diferent behaviours rapidly and flexibility?

Ayelet Sarel, Shaked Palgi, Dan Blum, Johnatan Aljadeff, Liora Las & Nachum Ulanovsky. Natural switches in behaviour rapidly modulate hippocampal coding. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05112-2

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Throughout their daily lives, animals and humans often switch between different behaviours. …

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How does the brain process coordinated head direction representations in mouse anterodorsal thalamic nucleus and retrosplenial cortex?

Marie-Sophie H van der Goes, Jakob Voigts, Jonathan P Newman, Enrique H S Toloza, Norma J Brown, Pranav Murugan, Mark T Harnett. Coordinated Head Direction Representations in Mouse Anterodorsal Thalamic Nucleus and Retrosplenial Cortex. bioRxiv 2022.08.20.504604; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.20.504604

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How hippocampal CA2 processes spatial novelty?

Bhasin, Guncha, and Indrajith R. Nair. “Dynamic hippocampal CA2 responses to contextual spatial novelty.” Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience: 79, 2022

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“Hippocampal place cells are functional units of spatial navigation and are present in all subregions: CA1, CA2, …

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Where and how odor and wind cues are integrated to support wind-guided olfactory navigation?

Andrew M. M. Matheson, Aaron J. Lanz, Ashley M. Medina, Al M. Licata, Timothy A. Currier, Mubarak H. Syed & Katherine I. Nagel. A neural circuit for wind-guided olfactory navigation. Nat Commun 13, 4613 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32247-7

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How landmark information reaches the hippocampus?

Elizabeth A.M.A. Allison, Joe W. Moore, Paul A. Dudchenko, Emma R. Wood. The medial entorhinal cortex is necessary for the stimulus control over hippocampal place fields by distal, but not proximal, landmarks. bioRxiv 2022.08.04.502628; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.04.502628

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Whether rats can learn spaces just by observation?

Doublet T, Nosrati M and Kentros CG (2022) Social Learning of a Spatial Task by Observation Alone. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 16:902675. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.902675

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“Interactions between conspecifics are central to the acquisition of useful memories in the real world. …

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How the hippocampus creates a vector-based model to support flexible navigation, allowing animals to select optimal paths to destinations from any location in the environment?

Ormond, J., O’Keefe, J. Hippocampal place cells have goal-oriented vector fields during navigation. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04913-9

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“The hippocampal cognitive map supports navigation towards, or away from, salient locations in familiar environments1. Although much is known about how the

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