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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Webb, Barbara. “The internal maps of insects.” Journal of Experimental Biology 222, no. Suppl 1 (2019): jeb188094.
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Insect navigation is strikingly geometric. Many species use path integration to maintain an accurate estimate of their distance and direction …
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
• …
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 …
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 …
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.
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The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is known to support episodic memory …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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.
Neural …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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