Category: Cognitive Navigation

How the brain acquire and exploit spatial context?

Eelke Spaak, Floris P. de Lange. Hippocampal and prefrontal theta-band mechanisms underpin implicit spatial context learning. Journal of Neuroscience 7 November 2019, 1660-19; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1660-19.2019

Abstract
Humans can rapidly and seemingly implicitly learn to predict typical locations of

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How humans navigate through their environment based on olfactory cues?

Hamburger, K. and Knauff, M. (2019), Odors Can Serve as Landmarks in Human Wayfinding. Cogn Sci, 43: e12798. doi:10.1111/cogs.12798

Abstract
Scientists have shown that many non‐human animals such as ants, dogs, or rats are very good at using

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How the spatial tuning relates to memory for events involving locations?

Qasim, S.E., Miller, J., Inman, C.S. et al. Memory retrieval modulates spatial tuning of single neurons in the human entorhinal cortex. Nat Neurosci (2019) doi:10.1038/s41593-019-0523-z

Abstract
“The medial temporal lobe is critical for both spatial navigation and memory.

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How the cognitive processes of spatial navigation and memory are linked in the brain?

Ethan A. Solomon, Bradley C. Lega, Michael R. Sperling, Michael J. Kahana. Hippocampal theta codes for distances in semantic and temporal spaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 2019, 201906729; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1906729116

Significance
The medial temporal

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How freely-swimming teleost fish collect and compute metric spatial information underwater?

Cecilia Karlsson, Jay Willis, Matishalin Patel, Theresa Burt de Perera. Teleost fish can accurately estimate distance travelled. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/834341

Abstract
Terrestrial animals compute shortcuts through their environment by integrating self-motion vectors containing distance and direction information. The sensory …

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How the mammalian brain achieves accurate tracking of head direction at different turning-velocities?

Arseny Finkelstein, Hervé Rouault, Sandro Romani, Nachum Ulanovsky. Dynamic control of cortical head-direction signal by angular velocity. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/730374

Abstract
The sense of direction requires accurate tracking of head direction at different turning-velocities, yet it remains unclear how

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How to represent 3D space in the entorhinal cortex of flying bats?

Authors
*G. GINOSAR1, J. ALJADEFF2, Y. BURAK3, H. SOMPOLINSKY3, L. LAS1, N. ULANOVSKY1;
1 Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Rehovot, Israel; 2 Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial Col. London, London, United Kingdom; 3 The Edmond and Lily Safra Ctr. for Brain Sciences, …

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How the brain integrates external cues with internal head-direction (HD) signals to drive navigational behavior?

Gil Vantomme, Zita Rovó, Romain Cardis, Elidie Béard, Georgia Katsioudi, Angelo Guadagno, Virginie Perrenoud, Laura MJ Fernandez, Anita Lüthi. A thalamic reticular circuit for head direction cell tuning and spatial navigationbioRxiv 804575; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/804575

Summary
To navigate

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How the brain represent allocentric (map-based) vectors to boundaries, objects, and goals?

Steven Poulter, Sang Ah Lee, James Dachtler, Thomas J. Wills, Colin Lever. Vector Trace cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal formation. bioRxiv 805242; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/805242

Abstract
Successfully navigating in physical or semantic space requires a neural representation

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How abstract and discrete relational structures are represented, combined, and navigated in the human brain?

Seongmin A. Park, Douglas S. Miller, Hamed Nili, Charan Ranganath, Erie D. Boorman. Map making: Constructing, combining, and navigating abstract cognitive maps. bioRxiv 810051; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/810051

ABSTRACT
Cognitive maps are thought to enable model-based inferences from limited experience

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How the brain represents landmarks?

Lukas F. Fischer, Raul Mojica Soto-Albors, Friederike Buck, Mark T. Harnett. Representation of Visual Landmarks in Retrosplenial Cortex. bioRxiv 811430; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/811430

Abstract
The process by which visual information is incorporated into the brain’s spatial framework to represent

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How the hippocampal spatial circuit represents latent information independent of sensory inputs and future goals?

Alexandra T. Keinath, Andres Nieto-posadas, Jennifer C. Robinson, Mark P. Brandon. DG-CA3 circuitry mediates hippocampal representations of latent information.bioRxiv 824102; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/824102

Abstract
“Survival in complex environments necessitates a flexible navigation system that incorporates memory of recent behavior and …

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How spatial information is communicated by place cells to downstream areas in a finer theta-timescale?

Monsalve‐Mercado, MM, Roudi, Y. Hippocampal spike‐time correlations and place field overlaps during open field foraging. Hippocampus. 2019; 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23173

Abstract
Phase precessing place cells encode spatial information on fine timescales via the timing of their spikes. …

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How the brain constructs spatial representations to code an appropriate route under different sensory cues?

Choijiljav Chinzorig, Hiroshi Nishimaru, Jumpei Matsumoto, Yusaku Takamura, Alain Berthoz, Taketoshi Ono, Hisao Nishijo, Rat Retrosplenial Cortical Involvement in Wayfinding Using Visual and Locomotor Cues, Cerebral Cortex,  bhz183, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhz183

Abstract
“The retrosplenial cortex (RSC) has been implicated in wayfinding …

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Whether the firing associations of grid cells depend on hippocampal inputs?

Noam Almog, Gilad Tocker, Tora Bonnevie, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser, Dori Derdikman. During hippocampal inactivation, grid cells maintain their synchrony, even when the grid pattern is lost. eLife 2019;8:e47147 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.47147

Abstract “The grid cell network in the medial …

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