Lynn Nadel. The hippocampal formation and action at a distance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2021, 118 (51) e2119670118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2119670118
“Why is it that the same neural system is so intimately involved in aspects …
Ningyu Zhang, Roddy M Grieves, Kate J Jeffery. Environment symmetry drives a multidirectional code in rat retrosplenial cortex. bioRxiv 2021.08.22.457261; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.22.457261
Abstract
“A class of neurons showing bidirectional tuning in a two-compartment environment was recently discovered in …
Lukas Kunz, Armin Brandt, Peter C. Reinacher, Bernhard P. Staresina, Eric T. Reifenstein, Christoph T. Weidemann, Nora A. Herweg, Ansh Patel, Melina Tsitsiklis, Richard Kempter, Michael J. Kahana, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Joshua Jacobs. A neural code for egocentric spatial maps in …
Philip Shamash, Sarah F. Olesen, Panagiota Iordanidou, Dario Campagner, Nabhojit Banerjee, Tiago Branco. Mice learn multi-step routes by memorizing subgoal locations. bioRxiv 2020.08.19.256867; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.19.256867
Abstract
“The behavioral strategies that mammals use to learn multi-step routes in natural …
William Mau, Michael E Hasselmo, Denise J Cai. The brain in motion: How ensemble fluidity drives memory-updating and flexibility.
eLife 2020;9:e63550 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.63550
Abstract
“While memories are often thought of as flashbacks to a previous experience, they do not …
Hideyoshi Igata, Yuji Ikegaya, Takuya Sasaki. Prioritized experience replays on a hippocampal predictive map for learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2021, 118 (1) e2011266118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011266118
Significance
“The hippocampus is crucial for spatial learning …
Cruzado NA, Tiganj Z, Brincat SL, Miller EK, Howard MW. Conjunctive representation of what and when in monkey hippocampus and lateral prefrontal cortex during an associative memory task. Hippocampus. 2020 Dec;30(12):1332-1346. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23282.
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“Adaptive memory requires the …
Nick T.M. Robinson, Lucie A.L. Descamps, Lloyd E. Russell, Moritz O. Buchholz, Brendan A. Bicknell, Georgy K. Antonov, Joanna Y.N. Lau, Rebecca Nutbrown, Christoph Schmidt-Hieber, Michael Häusser. Targeted Activation of Hippocampal Place Cells Drives Memory-Guided Spatial Behavior. Cell, 2020, …
Czajkowski, R., Jayaprakash, B., Wiltgen, B., Rogerson, T., Guzman-Karlsson, M. C., Barth, A. L., Trachtenberg, J. T., & Silva, A. J. (2014). Encoding and storage of spatial information in the retrosplenial cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences …
Philip Shamash, Sarah F. Olesen, Panagiota Iordanidou, Dario Campagner, Banerjee Nabhojit, Tiago Branco. Mice learn multi-step routes by memorizing subgoal locations. bioRxiv 2020.08.19.256867; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.19.256867
Abstract
“Animals must rapidly gather spatial information about new environments so that they …
E. Paxon Frady, Friedrich T. Sommer. Robust computation with rhythmic spike patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2019, 116 (36) 18050-18059; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1902653116
Significance
“This work makes 2 contributions. First, we present a neural network model …
Ian M. Bright, Miriam L. R. Meister, Nathanael A. Cruzado, Zoran Tiganj, Elizabeth A. Buffalo, Marc W. Howard. A temporal record of the past with a spectrum of time constants in the monkey entorhinal cortex. Proceedings of the National …
Adam Steel, Madeleine M. Billings, Edward H. Silson, Caroline E. Robertson. A network linking perception and memory systems in posterior cerebral cortex. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.25.115147
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“Here, we report a new network of brain areas bridging the spatial-memory and scene-perception …
Bicanski, A., Burgess, N. Neuronal vector coding in spatial cognition. Nat Rev Neurosci (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-020-0336-9
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“Several types of neurons involved in spatial navigation and memory encode the distance and direction (that is, the vector) between an agent …
Bermudez-Contreras E, Clark BJ and Wilber A (2020) The Neuroscience of Spatial Navigation and the Relationship to Artificial Intelligence. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 14:63. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2020.00063
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“Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and neuroscience are impressive. In AI, this …
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