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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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). …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Aya Goldshtein, Xing Chen, Eran Amichai, Arjan Boonman, Lee Harten, Omer Yinon,Yotam Orchan, Ran Nathan, Sivan Toledo, Iain D. Couzin, Yossi Yovel. Acoustic cognitive map–based navigation in echolocating bats.Science 386,561-567(2024).DOI:10.1126/science.adn6269
Editor’s summary
“Insectivorous bats are well known to use …
Dominique Siegenthaler, Henry Denny, Sofía Skromne Carrasco, Johanna Luise Mayer, Adrien Peyrache, Stuart Trenholm, Émilie Macé. Visual objects refine head direction coding. bioRxiv 2024.10.21.619417; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.21.619417
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“Animals use visual objects to guide navigation-related behaviors, from hunting prey, …
Ipshita Zutshi, Athina Apostolelli, Wannan Yang, Zheyang Zheng, Tora Dohi, Edoardo Balzani, Alex Williams, Cristina Savin, Gyorgy Buzsaki. Hippocampal neuronal activity is aligned with action plans. bioRxiv 2024.09.05.611533; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.05.611533
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“Neurons in the hippocampus are correlated with …
Leo Clement, Sebastian Schwarz, Antoine Wystrach. Latent learning without map-like representation of space in navigating ants. bioRxiv 2024.08.29.610243; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.29.610243
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“Desert ants are excellent navigators. Each individual learns long foraging routes meandering between the trees and bushes in …
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