Category: Cognitive Navigation

How the brain combines sensory information and internal models of control dynamics for self-motion perception and navigation?

Akis Stavropoulos, Kaushik J Lakshminarasimhan, Jean Laurens, Xaq Pitkow, Dora E Angelaki (2022) . Influence of sensory modality and control dynamics on human path integration. eLife 11:e63405.

Abstract
Path integration is a sensorimotor computation that can be used

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How specific firing patterns and oscillatory dynamics in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus can support both navigation and memory?

Buzsáki, G., Moser, E. Memory, navigation and theta rhythm in the hippocampal-entorhinal systemNat Neurosci 16, 130–138 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3304

Abstract
“Theories on the functions of the hippocampal system are based largely on two fundamental discoveries: the amnestic consequences …

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What is known about the role of the hippocampus in processing auditory information, and how the hippocampus itself is shaped by sound?

Alexander J. Billig, Meher Lad, William Sedley, Timothy D. Griffiths. The hearing hippocampus. Progress in Neurobiology, Volume 218, 2022, 102326.

Abstract
The hippocampus has a well-established role in spatial and episodic memory but a broader function has been

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Howretrohippocampal neurons encode location through ramping activity?

Tennant, Sarah A., Harry Clark, Ian Hawes, Wing Kin Tam, Junji Hua, Wannan Yang, Klara Z. Gerlei, Emma R. Wood, and Matthew F. Nolan. “Spatial representation by ramping activity of neurons in the retrohippocampal cortex.” Current Biology, September

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How temporal information is represented and used during prospective and retrospective timing?

Tsao, A., Yousefzadeh, S.A., Meck, W.H. et al. The neural bases for timing of durationsNat Rev Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-022-00623-3

Abstract
Durations are defined by a beginning and an end, and a major distinction is drawn between durations

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How hippocampal activity supports building predictive models by organizing newly learned information according to its congruence with existing memories?

Adam M. P. Miller, Alex D. Jacob, Adam I. Ramsaran, Mitchell L. De Snoo, Sheena A. Josselyn, Paul W. Frankland. Evolution of predictive memory in the hippocampus. bioRxiv 2022.09.08.507204; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.08.507204

Summary
“The brain organizes experiences into memories that …

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How hippocampal astrocytes encode reward location?

Adi Doron, Alon Rubin, Aviya Benmelech-Chovav, Netai Benaim, Tom Carmi, Ron Refaeli, Nechama Novick, Tirzah Kreisel, Yaniv Ziv & Inbal Goshen. Hippocampal astrocytes encode reward location. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05146-6

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“Astrocytic calcium dynamics has been implicated in the encoding …

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