Henriksson, Linda, Marieke Mur, and Nikolaus Kriegeskorte. “Rapid invariant encoding of scene layout in human OPA.” Neuron (2019).
In Brief
Environmental boundaries, such as walls,define the geometry of the local environment. How do our brains extract this information …
Sargolini, Francesca, Marianne Fyhn, Torkel Hafting, Bruce L. McNaughton, Menno P. Witter, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser. “Conjunctive representation of position, direction, and velocity in entorhinal cortex.” Science 312, no. 5774 (2006): 758-762.
Abstract
Grid cells in …
Robert G K Munn, Caitlin S Mallory, Kiah Hardcastle, Dane M Chetkovich, Lisa M Giocomo. Entorhinal velocity signals reflect environmental geometry. bioRxiv 671222; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/671222
Summary
The entorhinal cortex contains neural signals for representing self-location, including grid cells that …
Patai, E. Zita, Amir-Homayoun Javadi, Jason D. Ozubko, Andrew O’Callaghan, Shuman Ji, Jessica Robin, Cheryl Grady et al. “Hippocampal and Retrosplenial Goal Distance Coding After Long-term Consolidation of a Real-World Environment.” Cerebral Cortex (2019).
Abstract
Recent research indicates …
James Negen, Angela Sandri, Sang Ah Lee, Marko Nardini. Boundaries in Spatial Cognition: Looking like a Boundary is More Important than Being a Boundary. June 12, 2019. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/391037
Abstract
Large walls and other typical boundaries strongly influence neural activity …
Chen, Guifen, Yi Lu, John A. King, Francesca Cacucci, and Neil Burgess. “Differential influences of environment and self-motion on place and grid cell firing.” Nature communications 10, no. 1 (2019): 630.
Abstract
Place and grid cells in the hippocampal formation …
Johnston, W. Jeffrey, Stephanie E. Palmer, and David J. Freedman. “Nonlinear mixed selectivity supports reliable neural computation.” bioRxiv (2019): 577288.
Summary
Neuronal activity in the brain is variable, yet both perception and behavior are generally reliable. How does the brain …
Zirkelbach, Johannes, Martin Stemmler, and Andreas VM Herz. “Anticipatory neural activity improves the decoding accuracy for dynamic head-direction signals.” Journal of Neuroscience (2019): 2605-18.
Abstract
Insects and vertebrates harbor specific neurons that encode the animal’s head direction (HD) and provide …
Finkelstein, Arseny, Nachum Ulanovsky, Misha Tsodyks, and Johnatan Aljadeff. “Optimal dynamic coding by mixed-dimensionality neurons in the head-direction system of bats.” Nature communications 9, no. 1 (2018): 3590.
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Ethologically relevant stimuli are often multidimensional. In many brain …
Laptev, Dmitri, and Neil Burgess. “Neural dynamics indicate parallel integration of environmental and self-motion information by place and grid cells.” bioRxiv (2019): 640144.
Abstract
Place cells and grid cells in the hippocampal formation are thought to integrate sensory …
Vikbladh, Oliver M., Michael R. Meager, John King, Karen Blackmon, Orrin Devinsky, Daphna Shohamy, Neil Burgess, and Nathaniel D. Daw. “Hippocampal Contributions to Model-Based Planning and Spatial Memory.” Neuron (2019).
Highlights
• We tested planning and spatial memory …
Yizhen Zhang, Kuan Han, Robert Worth, Zhongming Liu. Connecting Concepts in the Brain: Mapping Cortical Representations of Semantic Relations. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/649939
In the brain, the semantic system is thought to store concepts. However, little is known about how it …
Jercog, Pablo E., Yashar Ahmadian, Caitlin Woodruff, Rajeev Deb-Sen, Laurence F. Abbott, and Eric R. Kandel. “Heading direction with respect to a reference point modulates place-cell activity.” Nature Communications 10, Article number: 2333 (2019).
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Lea Steffen, Daniel Reichard, Jakob Weinland, Jacques Kaiser, Arne Roennau and Rüdiger Dillmann. Neuromorphic Stereo Vision: a Survey of Bio-inspired Sensors and Algorithms. Front. Neurorobot. | doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2019.00028
Anstract: Any visual sensor, whether artificial or biological, maps the 3D-world …
Webb, Barbara. “The internal maps of insects.” Journal of Experimental Biology 222, no. Suppl 1 (2019): jeb188094.
ABSTRACT
Insect navigation is strikingly geometric. Many species use path integration to maintain an accurate estimate of their distance and direction …
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