Category: Neural Basis of Navigation

How hippocampal CA1 neurons encode both world-centered spatial information and animals’ location relative to the local landmarks, with a common directional input presumably provided by the head direction cell system?

Yue-Qing Zhou, Vyash Puliyadi, Xiaojing Chen, Joonhee Leo Lee, Lan-Yuan Zhang, James J. Knierim. Conjunctive vector coding and place coding in hippocampus share a common directional signal. bioRxiv 2023.06.02.543340; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.02.543340

Abstract
Vector coding is becoming increasingly understood

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What are the mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval in hippocampal area CA3?

Yiding Li, John J. Briguglio, Sandro Romani, Jeffrey C. Magee. Mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval in hippocampal area CA3. bioRxiv 2023.05.30.542781; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.30.542781

Abstract
“Hippocampal area CA3 is thought to play a central role in memory formation and …

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Does path integration contribute to human navigation in large-scale space?

Anastasiou, C., Baumann, O. & Yamamoto, N. Does path integration contribute to human navigation in large-scale space?Psychon Bull Rev (2022). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02216-8

Abstract
Path integration is a process in which navigators estimate their position and orientation relative to

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How place cells resolve spatial ambiguities?

Han Yin Cheng, Dorothy WU Overington, Kate J Jeffery. Three separable roles for context in breaking environmental symmetries for place cells. bioRxiv 2023.05.28.542182; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.28.542182

Abstract
We investigated how place cells resolve spatial ambiguities, such as identical compartments

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How contextual and goal information are incorporated in the construction and execution of navigational plans in the human hippocampus?

Jordan Crivelli-Decker, Alex Clarke, Seongmin A. Park, Derek J. Huffman, Erie D. Boorman & Charan Ranganath. Goal-oriented representations in the human hippocampus during planning and navigation. Nat Commun 14, 2946 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35967-6

Abstract
“Recent work in cognitive and systems …

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How hippocampal system neurons encode views for memory and navigation in different species?

Hippocampus Special Issue:Hippocampal System Neurons Encoding Views in Different Species
Issue Edited by: Edmund Rolls, Sylvia Wirth , May 2023

“The aim of this Special Issue of Hippocampus (2023) is to bring together papers that address view representations in the

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How environment geometry influence on subiculum boundary vector cells?

Laurenz Muessig, Fabio Ribeiro Rodrigues, Tale Bjerknes, Ben Towse, Caswell Barry, Neil Burgess, Edvard I. Moser, May-Britt Moser, Francesca Cacucci, Thomas J. Wills. The influence of environment geometry on subiculum boundary vector cells in adulthood and early development. bioRxiv …

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How the vestibular system influences the generation, maintenance, and updating of the head direction signal?

Jalina A. Graham, Julie R. Dumont, Shawn S. Winter, Joel E. Brown, Patrick A. LaChance, Carly C. Amon, Kara B. Farnes, Ashlyn J. Morris, Nicholas A. Streltzov, Jeffrey S. Taube. Angular head velocity cells within brainstem nuclei projecting to the

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How context recognition and heading retrieval are coded in CA1 and how these processes change with experience during spatial reorientation?

Celia M. Gagliardi, Marc E. Normandin, Alexandra T. Keinath, Joshua B. Julian, Matthew R. Lopez, Manuel-Miguel Ramos-Alvarez, Russell A. Epstein, and Isabel A. Muzzio. Distinct neural mechanisms for heading retrieval and context recognition in the hippocampus during spatial reorientation

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How hippocampal cognitive maps are used and updated fexibly for inference?

Mona M. Garvert, Tankred Saanum, Eric Schulz, Nicolas W. Schuck & Christian F. Doeller. Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. Nat Neurosci (2023).

Abstract
“The brain forms cognitive maps of relational knowledge—an organizing principle thought to underlie …

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How the neural compass flexibly adapts to changing environmental cues to maintain a reliable representation of HD?

Zaki Ajabi, Alexandra T. Keinath, Xue-Xin Wei & Mark P. Brandon. Population dynamics of head-direction neurons during drift and reorientationNature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05813-2

Abstract
“The head direction (HD) system functions as the brain’s internal compass1,2, classically formalized as a …

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Which neural circuits utilize relevant cues to initiate integration?

Raphael Heldman, Dongyan Pang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Yingxue Wang. A CA1 circuit motif that signals the start of information integration. bioRxiv 2023.03.12.532295; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.12.532295

Abstract
Integrating information from the recent past is critical for guiding predictions and shaping behavior

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How cognitive maps are transformed across hippocampal-prefrontal circuits to support abstraction and generalization?

Wenbo Tang, Justin D. Shin, Shantanu P. Jadhav. Geometric transformation of cognitive maps for generalization across hippocampal-prefrontal circuits. Cell Reports 42, 112246, March 28, 2023. 

Summary
The ability to abstract information to guide decisions during navigation across changing

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How to estimate animal location from grid cell population activity using persistent cohomology?

Daisuke Kawahara, Shigeyoshi Fujisawa. Estimation of animal location from grid cell population activity using persistent cohomology. bioRxiv 2023.01.10.523361; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.10.523361

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“Many cognitive functions are represented as cell assemblies. For example, the population activity of place cells in the …

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How to convert an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal?

Peter Mussells Pires, L.F. Abbott, Gaby Maimon. Converting an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal. bioRxiv 2022.11.10.516026; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.10.516026

Abstract
Neuronal signals relevant for spatial navigation have been described in many species1–12, however, a circuit-level understanding of

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