Sosa, M., Giocomo, L.M. Navigating for reward. Nat Rev Neurosci (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00479-z
Abstract
“An organism’s survival can depend on its ability to recall and navigate to spatial locations associated with rewards, such as food or a home. …
Sevan K. Harootonian, Arne D. Ekstrom, Robert C. Wilson. Combination and competition between path integration and landmark navigation in the estimation of heading direction. bioRxiv 2021.06.30.450548; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.30.450548
Abstract
“Successful navigation requires the ability to compute one’s location …
Jake Ormond, John O’Keefe. Hippocampal place cells use vector computations to navigate. bioRxiv 2021.06.23.449621; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.23.449621
Abstract
“One function of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map is to provide information about salient locations in familiar environments such as those containing reward …
Eliav T, Maimon SR, Aljadeff J, Tsodyks M, Ginosar G, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Multiscale representation of very large environments in the hippocampus of flying bats, Science 372, eabg4020 (2021). PDF | News&Views: Wood & Dudchenko
Abstract
“Hippocampal …
Ledergerber, Debora, Claudia Battistin, Jan Sigurd Blackstad, Richard J. Gardner, Menno P. Witter, May-Britt Moser, Yasser Roudi, and Edvard I. Moser. “Task-dependent mixed selectivity in the subiculum.” Cell Report, Volume 35, Issue 8, 25 May 2021, 109175.
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Davide Spalla, Alessandro Treves, Charlotte N. Boccara. Angular and Linear Speed Cells in the Parahippocampal Circuits. bioRxiv 2021.01.28.428631; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.28.428631
Abstract
“An essential role of the hippocampal region is to integrate information to compute and update representations. …
Stangl, M., Topalovic, U., Inman, C.S. et al. Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03073-y
Abstract
“Everyday tasks in social settings require humans to encode neural representations of not only their own spatial …
Hannes Rapp, Martin Paul Nawrot. A spiking neural program for sensorimotor control during foraging in flying insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 2020, 117 (45) 28412-28421; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009821117
Significance
“Living organisms demonstrate remarkable abilities in …
Andrew S. Alexander, Janet C. Tung, G. William Chapman, Laura E. Shelley, Michael E. Hasselmo, Douglas A. Nitz. Adaptive integration of self-motion and goals in posterior parietal cortex. bioRxiv 2020.12.19.423589; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.19.423589
Abstract
“Animals engage in a variety …
Cruzado NA, Tiganj Z, Brincat SL, Miller EK, Howard MW. Conjunctive representation of what and when in monkey hippocampus and lateral prefrontal cortex during an associative memory task. Hippocampus. 2020 Dec;30(12):1332-1346. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23282.
Abstract
“Adaptive memory requires the …
Genzel D, Yartsev MM. The fully automated bat (FAB) flight room: A human-free environment for studying navigation in flying bats and its initial application to the retrosplenial cortex. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2020 Oct:108970. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2020.108970.
“Background
Bats can …
Roddy M. Grieves, Selim Jedidi-Ayoub, Karyna Mishchanchuk, Anyi Liu, Sophie Renaudineau, Éléonore Duvelle, Kate J. Jeffery. Grid cell firing fields in a volumetric space. bioRxiv 2020.12.06.413542; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.06.413542
Abstract
“We investigated how entorhinal grid cells represent volumetric (three-dimensional) space…
Arnold, Aiden EG, Ford Burles, Signe Bray, Richard M. Levy, and Giuseppe Iaria. “Differential neural network configuration during human path integration.” Frontiers in human neuroscience 8 (2014): 263.
Abstract
“Path integration is a fundamental skill for navigation …
Adam Steel, Madeleine M. Billings, Edward H. Silson, Caroline E. Robertson. A network linking perception and memory systems in posterior cerebral cortex. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.25.115147
Abstract
“Here, we report a new network of brain areas bridging the spatial-memory and scene-perception …
Okubo T., Patella P., D’Alessandro I., and Wilson RI. “A Neural Network for Wind-Guided Compass Navigation.” Neuron, 2020, 107, Pp. 1-17
Summary
“Spatial maps in the brain are most accurate when they are linked to external sensory cues. …
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