Category: Neural Basis of Navigation
Hippocampal Contributions to Model-Based Planning and Spatial Memory
Vikbladh, Oliver M., Michael R. Meager, John King, Karen Blackmon, Orrin Devinsky, Daphna Shohamy, Neil Burgess, and Nathaniel D. Daw. “Hippocampal Contributions to Model-Based Planning and Spatial Memory.” Neuron (2019).
Highlights
• We tested planning and spatial memory …
How the brain represents the semantic relations?
Yizhen Zhang, Kuan Han, Robert Worth, Zhongming Liu. Connecting Concepts in the Brain: Mapping Cortical Representations of Semantic Relations. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/649939
In the brain, the semantic system is thought to store concepts. However, little is known about how it …
Planning at decision time and in the background during spatial navigation
Pezzulo, Giovanni, Francesco Donnarumma, Domenico Maisto, and Ivilin Stoianov. “Planning at decision time and in the background during spatial navigation.” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 29 (2019): 69-76.
Highlights
• Planning is the model-based approach to solving control …
Heading direction with respect to a reference point modulates place-cell activity
Jercog, Pablo E., Yashar Ahmadian, Caitlin Woodruff, Rajeev Deb-Sen, Laurence F. Abbott, and Eric R. Kandel. “Heading direction with respect to a reference point modulates place-cell activity.” Nature Communications 10, Article number: 2333 (2019).
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The internal maps of insects
Webb, Barbara. “The internal maps of insects.” Journal of Experimental Biology 222, no. Suppl 1 (2019): jeb188094.
ABSTRACT
Insect navigation is strikingly geometric. Many species use path integration to maintain an accurate estimate of their distance and direction …
How ants navigate within their dark nest
Heyman, Y., Vilk, Y., & Feinerman, O. (2019). Ants use multiple spatial memories and chemical pointers to navigate their nest. iScience.
Highlights
• Heyman et al. combine multiple technologies to study how ants navigate within their dark nest
• …
The Integration of Goal-Directed Signals onto Spatial Maps of Hippocampal Place Cells
Aoki, Yuki, Hideyoshi Igata, Yuji Ikegaya, and Takuya Sasaki. “The Integration of Goal-Directed Signals onto Spatial Maps of Hippocampal Place Cells.” Cell Reports 27, no. 5 (2019): 1516-1527.
Spatial firing of hippocampal place cells varies depending on the …
Whether humans can navigate a sensory space informed only by odor cues and how the brain might internalize a representation of two-dimensional olfactory space
Xiaojun Bao, Eva Gjorgieva, Laura K. Shanahan, James D. Howard, Thorsten Kahnt, and Jay A. Gottfried. Grid-like Neural Representations Support Olfactory Navigation of a Two-Dimensional Odor Space. Neuron(2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.03.034
Grid cells in entorhinal cortex underlie spatial orientation and path …
Whether the established neural signature of spatial memory and navigation – MTL theta oscillations – are also present during the retrieval of relational verbal memory
Solomon, Ethan A., Bradley C. Lega, Michael R. Sperling, and Michael J. Kahana. “Hippocampal theta codes for distances in semantic and temporal spaces.” bioRxiv (2019): 611681.
ABSTRACT
The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is known to support episodic memory …
Two Compasses in the Central Complex of the Locust Brain
Pegel, Uta, Keram Pfeiffer, Frederick Zittrell, Christine Scholtyssek, and Uwe Homberg. “Two compasses in the central complex of the locust brain.” Journal of Neuroscience 39, no. 16 (2019): 3070-3080.
In the brain of the desert locust, neurons sensitive …
Learning to navigate – how desert ants calibrate their compass systems?
Robin Grob, Pauline N. Fleischmann and Wolfgang Rössler*. Learning to navigate – how desert ants calibrate their compass systems. Neuroforum 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/nf-2018-0011
Navigating through the environment is a challenging task that animals cope with on a daily basis. Many …
How insects could store and recall path integration vectors to follow food-ward paths, take shortcuts, search at the feeder and re-calibrate their vector-memories with experience?
Le Moël, Florent, Thomas Jonathan Stone, Mathieu Lihoreau, Antoine Wystrach, and Barbara Webb. “The central complex as a potential substrate for vector based navigation.” Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019): 690.
Fig from Le Moël et al. 2019.
The …
How to build goal-directed navigation based on path integration and decoding of grid cells in an artificial neural network？
Edvardsen, Vegard. “Goal-directed navigation based on path integration and decoding of grid cells in an artificial neural network.” Natural Computing 18, no. 1 (2019): 13-27.
The following content is extracted from Edvardsen 2019.
Edvardsen, Vegard. “Goal-directed navigation based …
How to implement long-range navigation by path integration and decoding of grid cells in a neural network?
Edvardsen, Vegard. “Long-range navigation by path integration and decoding of grid cells in a neural network.” In 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 4348-4355. IEEE, 2017.
The following content is extracted from Edvardsen 2017.
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How grid cells generate unambiguous and high-capacity representations of variables in much higher-dimensional space?
Klukas, Mirko, Marcus Lewis, and Ila Fiete. “Flexible representation and memory of higher-dimensional cognitive variables with grid cells.” bioRxiv (2019): 578641.
The following content is from Klukas 2019.
Grid cell representations are simultaneously flexible and powerful yet rigid …
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