Category: Cognitive Navigation

What’s the neural basis of probabilistic computation in visual cortex?

Walker, Edgar Y., R. James Cotton, Wei Ji Ma, and Andreas S. Tolias. “A neural basis of probabilistic computation in visual cortex.” Nature Neuroscience 23, no. 1 (2020): 122-129.

Abstract
Bayesian models of behavior suggest that organisms

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How does the primate hippocampus represent objects and space during virtual navigation?

Gulli, Roberto A., Lyndon R. Duong, Benjamin W. Corrigan, Guillaume Doucet, Sylvain Williams, Stefano Fusi, and Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo. “Context-dependent representations of objects and space in the primate hippocampus during virtual navigation.” Nature Neuroscience 23, no. 1 (2020): …

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Recent progress in the study of the head direction cell network: attractor dynamics, integration within the navigation system, and three-dimensional properties

Dora E Angelaki, Jean Laurens. The head direction cell network: attractor dynamics, integration within the navigation system, and three-dimensional properties. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 60, 2020, Pages 136-144, ISSN 0959-4388, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.12.002.

Highlights
•Head Direction Cells form an attractor …

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How specific populations of cells within the LEC contribute to the integration of episodic memory components?

Vandrey, Brianna, Derek LF Garden, Veronika Ambrozova, Christina McClure, Matthew F. Nolan, and James A. Ainge. “Fan Cells in Layer 2 of the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex Are Critical for Episodic-like Memory.” Current Biology (2019).

Summary
Episodic memory

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How the running speed modulates the firing rate of the place cells?

McClain, Kathryn et al “Position–theta-phase model of hippocampal place cell activity applied to quantification of running speed modulation of firing rate.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019): 201912792. Web. 20 Dec. 2019.

Significance
“The hippocampus is …

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How do backward walking ants cope with navigational uncertainty?

Sebastian Schwarz, Leo Clement, Evripides Gkanias, Antoine Wystrach. How do backward walking ants (Cataglyphis velox) cope with navigational uncertainty? bioRxiv 2019.12.16.877704; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.16.877704

ABSTRACT
“Current opinion in insect navigation assumes that animals need to align with the goal direction to …

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How the brain and robots encode social location information?

Bos, Jeroen J., Martin Vinck, Pietro Marchesi, Amos Keestra, Laura A. van Mourik-Donga, Jadin C. Jackson, Paul FMJ Verschure, and Cyriel MA Pennartz. “Multiplexing of Information about Self and Others in Hippocampal Ensembles.” Cell Reports 29, no. 12 …

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What could be the computational benefits of such a mapping between intrinsic dynamical structure and external sensory inputs for navigation in the brain?

Christian Leibold. A Model for Navigation in Unknown Environments Based on a Reservoir of Hippocampal Sequences
bioRxiv 2019.12.18.880583; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.18.880583

Abstract
“Hippocampal place cell populations are activated in sequences on multiple time scales during active behavior, resting and sleep …

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How to conduct a quantitative comparison of machine learning and statistical model-based decoding methods on HD cell activity?

Xu Z, Wu W, Winter SS, Mehlman ML, Butler WN, Simmons CM, Harvey RE, Berkowitz LE, Chen Y, Taube JS, Wilber AA and Clark BJ (2019) A Comparison of Neural Decoding Methods and Population Coding Across Thalamo-Cortical Head Direction Cells

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How the grid cells perform path integral, path planning and error correction?

Gao, Ruiqi & Xie, Jianwen & Zhu, Song & Wu, Yingnian.  Learning Grid Cells as Vector Representation of Self-Position Coupled with Matrix Representation of Self-Motion. ICLR 2019

Abstract

This paper proposes a representational model for grid cells. In

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How to decode sensory and behavioural variables directly from wide-band neural data?

Markus Frey, Sander Tanni, Catherine Perrodin, Alice O’Leary, Matthias Nau, Jack Kelly, Andrea Banino, Christian F Doeller, Caswell Barry. DeepInsight: A general framework for interpreting wide-band neural activity. bioRxiv 871848; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/871848

Abstract
“Rapid progress in technologies such as …

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How the Human Brain Perform the Retrieval of Large-Scale Spatial Environments?

Derek J. Huffman, Arne D. Ekstrom, A Modality-Independent Network Underlies the Retrieval of Large-Scale Spatial Environments in the Human Brain, Neuron, Volume 104, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 611-622.e7, ISSN 0896-6273, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.012.

Abstract
In humans, the extent to which

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How rats explored a layered pyramid placed in a large open field?

Hagbi, Z., Dorfman, A., Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, E. et al. “It’s all in their head”: hierarchical exploration of a three-dimensional layered pyramid in rats. Anim Cogn (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-019-01332-8

Abstract
Wayfinding in a three-dimensional (3D) environment is intricate, and surface-bounded animals

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What’s the effect of the differences on the dynamics of the heading direction circuit of two insect species

Ioannis Pisokas, Stanley Heinze, Barbara Webb. The heading direction circuit of two insect species.  bioRxiv 854521; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/854521

Abstract
Recent studies of the Central Complex in the brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have identified neurons with localised

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How the human brain encodes allocentric boundary and goal direction information?

Shine, J.P., Valdés-Herrera, J.P., Tempelmann, C. et al. Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculumNat Commun 10, 4004 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11802-9

Abstract
“In rodents, cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (EC) …

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