Category: Spatial Cognition

How humans navigate through their environment based on olfactory cues?

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

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How the spatial tuning relates to memory for events involving locations?

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

Abstract
“The medial temporal lobe is critical for both spatial navigation and memory.

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How the cognitive processes of spatial navigation and memory are linked in the brain?

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

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How freely-swimming teleost fish collect and compute metric spatial information underwater?

Cecilia Karlsson, Jay Willis, Matishalin Patel, Theresa Burt de Perera. Teleost fish can accurately estimate distance travelled. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/834341

Abstract
Terrestrial animals compute shortcuts through their environment by integrating self-motion vectors containing distance and direction information. The sensory …

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How the mammalian brain achieves accurate tracking of head direction at different turning-velocities?

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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How to represent 3D space in the entorhinal cortex of flying bats?

Authors
*G. GINOSAR1, J. ALJADEFF2, Y. BURAK3, H. SOMPOLINSKY3, L. LAS1, N. ULANOVSKY1;
1 Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Rehovot, Israel; 2 Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial Col. London, London, United Kingdom; 3 The Edmond and Lily Safra Ctr. for Brain Sciences, …

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How the brain integrates external cues with internal head-direction (HD) signals to drive navigational behavior?

Gil Vantomme, Zita Rovó, Romain Cardis, Elidie Béard, Georgia Katsioudi, Angelo Guadagno, Virginie Perrenoud, Laura MJ Fernandez, Anita Lüthi. A thalamic reticular circuit for head direction cell tuning and spatial navigationbioRxiv 804575; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/804575

Summary
To navigate

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