Derek J. Huffman, Arne D. Ekstrom, A Modality-Independent Network Underlies the Retrieval of Large-Scale Spatial Environments in the Human Brain, Neuron, Volume 104, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 611-622.e7, ISSN 0896-6273, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.012.
Abstract
“In humans, the extent to which …
Hagbi, Z., Dorfman, A., Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, E. et al. “It’s all in their head”: hierarchical exploration of a three-dimensional layered pyramid in rats. Anim Cogn (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-019-01332-8
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“Wayfinding in a three-dimensional (3D) environment is intricate, and surface-bounded animals …
Ioannis Pisokas, Stanley Heinze, Barbara Webb. The heading direction circuit of two insect species. bioRxiv 854521; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/854521
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Recent studies of the Central Complex in the brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have identified neurons with localised …
Shine, J.P., Valdés-Herrera, J.P., Tempelmann, C. et al. Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculum. Nat Commun 10, 4004 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11802-9
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“In rodents, cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (EC) …
Xiaoli Chen, Paula Vieweg, Thomas Wolbers.Computing distance information from landmarks and self-motion cues – Differential contributions of anterior-lateral vs. posterior-medial entorhinal cortex in humans. NeuroImage, Volume 202,2019, 116074, ISSN 1053-8119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116074.
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“Landmarks and path integration cues are …
Alexander Jones, Andrew Rush, Cory Merkel, Eric Herrmann, Ajey P. Jacob, Clare Thiem, Rashmi Jha. A neuromorphic SLAM architecture using gated-memristive synapses. Neurocomputing, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.09.098.
Abstract
“Navigation in GPS-denied environments is a critical challenge for autonomous mobile platforms …
Cheng Wang, Xiaojing Chen, James J Knierim. Egocentric and allocentric representations of space in the rodent brain, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 60, 2020, Pages 12-20,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.11.005.
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“Spatial signals are prevalent within the hippocampus and its neighboring regions. It …
Yvette E. Fisher, Jenny Lu, Isabel D’Alessandro & Rachel I. Wilson . Sensorimotor experience remaps visual input to a heading-direction network. Nature (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1772-4
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“In the Drosophila brain, ‘compass’ neurons track the orientation of the body and head …
Kim, S.S., Hermundstad, A.M., Romani, S. et al. Generation of stable heading representations in diverse visual scenes. Nature (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1767-1
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“Many animals rely on an internal heading representation when navigating in varied environments1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. How this representation …
Bellmund, J.L.S., de Cothi, W., Ruiter, T.A. et al. Deforming the metric of cognitive maps distorts memory. Nat Hum Behav (2019) doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0767-3
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Environmental boundaries anchor cognitive maps that support memory. However, trapezoidal boundary geometry distorts the regular firing …
Eelke Spaak, Floris P. de Lange. Hippocampal and prefrontal theta-band mechanisms underpin implicit spatial context learning. Journal of Neuroscience 7 November 2019, 1660-19; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1660-19.2019
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“Humans can rapidly and seemingly implicitly learn to predict typical locations of …
Hamburger, K. and Knauff, M. (2019), Odors Can Serve as Landmarks in Human Wayfinding. Cogn Sci, 43: e12798. doi:10.1111/cogs.12798
Abstract
“Scientists have shown that many non‐human animals such as ants, dogs, or rats are very good at using …
Qasim, S.E., Miller, J., Inman, C.S. et al. Memory retrieval modulates spatial tuning of single neurons in the human entorhinal cortex. Nat Neurosci (2019) doi:10.1038/s41593-019-0523-z
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“The medial temporal lobe is critical for both spatial navigation and memory.…
Ethan A. Solomon, Bradley C. Lega, Michael R. Sperling, Michael J. Kahana. Hippocampal theta codes for distances in semantic and temporal spaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 2019, 201906729; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1906729116
Significance
“The medial temporal …
Arseny Finkelstein, Hervé Rouault, Sandro Romani, Nachum Ulanovsky. Dynamic control of cortical head-direction signal by angular velocity. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/730374
Abstract
“The sense of direction requires accurate tracking of head direction at different turning-velocities, yet it remains unclear how …
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