Category: Cognitive Navigation

How flexible navigation strategies emerge and evolve in freely moving non-human primates?

Nada El Mahmoudi, Francesca Lanzarini, Farzad Ziaie Nezhad, Deepak Surendran, Jean Laurens. From Exploration to Structured Navigation: Learning Dynamics of Freely Moving Marmosets during Foraging. bioRxiv 2025.03.22.644580; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.22.644580

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Spatial memory plays a crucial role in guiding

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How insect integrate spatial and temporal information?

Gkanias, E., Webb, B. Spatiotemporal computations in the insect celestial compass. Nat Commun 16, 2832 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57937-w

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Obtaining a geocentric directional reference from a celestial compass requires compensation for the sun’s movement during the day (relative to …

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How the brain coordinates and integrates allocentric, route-centered, and egocentric spatial reference frames at the network level during navigation?

Yicheng Zheng (征亦诚), Xinyu Zhou (周信羽), Shawn C. Moseley, Sydney M. Ragsdale, Leslie J. Alday, Wei Wu (吴畏) and Aaron A. Wilber. A Hippocampal-parietal Network for Reference Frame Coordination. Journal of Neuroscience, 5 February 2025, e1782242025; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1782-24.2025

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“Navigating …

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How spatial coding support auditory conceptual navigation in the entorhinal-hippocampal system?

Kyle Jasmin, Max Bullock, Frederic Dick, Roger Atkins, Roberto Bottini, Federica Sigismondi, Adam Tierney. Spatial coding supports auditory conceptual navigation. bioRxiv 2025.02.04.636440; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.04.636440

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Grid cells in human entorhinal cortex encode spatial layouts for real-world navigation, yet

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How to compose egocentric and allocentric maps for flexible navigation?

Daniel Shani, Peter Dayan. Composing egocentric and allocentric maps for flexible navigation. bioRxiv 2025.01.24.634748; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.24.634748

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Egocentric representations of the environment have historically been relegated to being used only for simple forms of spatial behaviour such as …

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What’s human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation?

Martin Seeber, Matthias Stangl, Mauricio Vallejo Martelo, Uros Topalovic, Sonja Hiller, Casey H. Halpern, Jean-Philippe Langevin, Vikram R. Rao, Itzhak Fried, Dawn Eliashiv & Nanthia Suthana. Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02119-3…

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How memory mechanisms shape navigational strategies in Drosophila?

Andrew F. Siliciano, Sun Minni, Chad Morton, Charles K. Dowell, Noelle B. Eghbali, Juliana Y. Rhee, L. F. Abbott, Vanessa Ruta. A vector-based strategy for olfactory navigation in Drosophila. bioRxiv 2025.02.15.638426; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.15.638426

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“Odors serve as essential cues …

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Whether and how dendritic plasticity modulates memory?

Sehgal, M., Filho, D.A., Kastellakis, G. et al. Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01876-8

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Events occurring close in time are often linked in memory

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How left–right-alternating theta sweeps in the entorhinal–hippocampal positioning system provides an efficient ‘look around’ mechanism for sampling locations beyond the travelled path?

Abraham Z. Vollan, Richard J. Gardner, May-Britt Moser & Edvard I. Moser. Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08527-1

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Place cells in the hippocampus and grid cells in the entorhinal cortex are elements

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How does the brain actually represent the real world with its complex, multianimal settings?

Saikat Ray, Itay Yona, Nadav Elami, Shaked Palgi, Kenneth W. Latimer, Bente Jacobsen, Menno P. Witter, Liora Las, and Nachum Ulanovsky. Hippocampal coding of identity, sex, hierarchy, and affiliation in a social group of wild fruit bats. Science 387,eadk9385(2025). …

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How behavior incorporated into visual compass like route learning and recapitulation strategies might enable convergence to a learned route and its destination?

Amany Azevedo Amin, Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham. Ant visual route navigation: How the fine details of behaviour promote successful route performance and convergence. bioRxiv 2025.01.16.633342; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.16.633342

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“Individually foraging ants use egocentric views as a dominant navigation strategy …

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How does one brain circuit encode memories of both places and events?

Sarthak Chandra, Sugandha Sharma, Rishidev Chaudhuri & Ila Fiete. Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08392-y

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“Hippocampal circuits in the brain enable two distinct cognitive functions: the construction of spatial maps for

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How to understand the neural basis of natural intelligence?

Angelo Forli, Michael M. Yartsev. Understanding the neural basis of natural intelligence. Cell, 2024, Volume 187, Issue 21, 5833 – 5837

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Understanding the neural basis of natural intelligence necessitates a paradigm shift: from strict reductionism toward …

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How synaptic plasticity underlies place-field formation and memory encoding during navigation?

Gonzalez, K.C., Negrean, A., Liao, Z. et al. Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08325-9

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“A central question in neuroscience is how synaptic plasticity shapes the feature selectivity of neurons in behaving animals1. …

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How learning-associated astrocyte ensembles regulate memory recall?

Williamson, M.R., Kwon, W., Woo, J. et al. Learning-associated astrocyte ensembles regulate memory recall. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08170-w

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The physical manifestations of memory formation and recall are fundamental questions that remain unresolved1. At the cellular level, ensembles …

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