Category: Neural Basis of Navigation
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.
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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 …
How grid cells could possibly organize?
Anselmi, Fabio, Benedetta Franceschiello, Micah M. Murray, and Lorenzo Rosasco. “A computational model for grid maps in neural populations.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06553 (2019).
The following content is extracted from Anselmi 2019.
Anselmi, Fabio, Benedetta Franceschiello, Micah M. Murray, …
How the brain implements recognition of familiar faces, objects, and scenes at the neural level?
Bicanski and Burgess 2019 propose that grid cells support visual recognition memory, by encoding translation vectors between salient stimulus features. They provide an explicit neural mechanism for the role of directed saccades in hypothesis-driven, constructive perception and recognition, and …
Whether hippocampal spatial coding principles also provide a universal metric for the organization of non-spatial information?
The latest investigation by Theves et al. 2019 revealed the hippocampus encodes distances in multidimensional feature space.
Highlights
• The hippocampus encodes distances in multidimensional feature space
• Converging evidence from multivoxel pattern and fMRI adaptation analyses
• Results suggest …
How Animals Find Their Way
A new book ‘Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way’ by David Barrie was published in May 28, 2019.
In Supernavigators, award-winning author David Barrie takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge science of animal navigation…
Key brain region for navigating familiar places identified
UCL scientists have discovered the key brain region for navigating well-known places, helping explain why brain damage seen in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease can cause such severe disorientation.
Recent research indicates the hippocampus may code the distance to the …
Whether and how vectorial operations are implemented in the wider neural representation of space?
In environments that contain discrete objects, animals are known to store information about distance and direction to those objects and to use this vector information to guide navigation. Theoretical studies have proposed that such vector operations are supported by …
Insect-Inspired Robots Don’t Need GPS For Orientation
The ‘Brains on Board’ project is a collaboration between several British universities in partnership with the Human Brain Project and seeks to ‘translate’ the brains of ants and bees into algorithms that a machine will understand. Its aim is …
A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain
Head direction cells in the mammalian limbic system are thought to function as an allocentric neuronal compass. Although traditional views hold that the compass of ground-dwelling species is planar, Angelaki et al. 2019 show that head-direction cells in the rodent …
NeuroSLAM : Neural Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Workshop 13-14 Mar 2019 Paris (France)
NeuroSLAM: Neural Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Workshop
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (or SLAM) refers to the problem of constructing a map of an unknown environment as it is actively being explored. SLAM has been treated extensively in mobile robotics, providing …
How the brain represent 3D head direction in 3D space?
The note is an excerpt from the Shinder et al. 2019. We just describe some key conception and results in this study as a significant note. Please read the original paper if you are interested in the study on https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00880.2017…
How the brain’s spatial systems organize their representation of 3D space?
The brain’s spatial map is supported by place cells, encoding current location, and grid cells, which report horizontal distance traveled by producing evenly sized and spaced foci of activity (firing fields) that tile the environment surface. Casalia et al. 2019 …
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