Category: Cognitive Navigation

How hippocampal CA1 neurons encode both world-centered spatial information and animals’ location relative to the local landmarks, with a common directional input presumably provided by the head direction cell system?

Yue-Qing Zhou, Vyash Puliyadi, Xiaojing Chen, Joonhee Leo Lee, Lan-Yuan Zhang, James J. Knierim. Conjunctive vector coding and place coding in hippocampus share a common directional signal. bioRxiv 2023.06.02.543340; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.02.543340

Abstract
Vector coding is becoming increasingly understood

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What are the mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval in hippocampal area CA3?

Yiding Li, John J. Briguglio, Sandro Romani, Jeffrey C. Magee. Mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval in hippocampal area CA3. bioRxiv 2023.05.30.542781; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.30.542781

Abstract
“Hippocampal area CA3 is thought to play a central role in memory formation and …

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How place cells resolve spatial ambiguities?

Han Yin Cheng, Dorothy WU Overington, Kate J Jeffery. Three separable roles for context in breaking environmental symmetries for place cells. bioRxiv 2023.05.28.542182; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.28.542182

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We investigated how place cells resolve spatial ambiguities, such as identical compartments

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How contextual and goal information are incorporated in the construction and execution of navigational plans in the human hippocampus?

Jordan Crivelli-Decker, Alex Clarke, Seongmin A. Park, Derek J. Huffman, Erie D. Boorman & Charan Ranganath. Goal-oriented representations in the human hippocampus during planning and navigation. Nat Commun 14, 2946 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35967-6

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“Recent work in cognitive and systems …

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How hippocampal system neurons encode views for memory and navigation in different species?

Hippocampus Special Issue:Hippocampal System Neurons Encoding Views in Different Species
Issue Edited by: Edmund Rolls, Sylvia Wirth , May 2023

“The aim of this Special Issue of Hippocampus (2023) is to bring together papers that address view representations in the

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How the dorsal subiculum encode corners across environmental geometries in an allocentric reference frame?

Yanjun Sun, Douglas A Nitz, Xiangmin Xu, Lisa M Giocomo. The subiculum encodes environmental geometry. bioRxiv 2023.05.07.539721; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.07.539721

Abstract
Corners are a cardinal feature of many of the complex environmental geometries found in the natural world but

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How to implement an explainable artificial intelligence approach to spatial navigation based on hippocampal circuitry?

Simone Coppolino, Michele Migliore. An explainable artificial intelligence approach to spatial navigation based on hippocampal circuitry. Neural Networks, Volume 163, June 2023, Pages 97-107.

Abstract
Learning to navigate a complex environment is not a difficult task for a

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How are objects and landmarks encoded by the hippocampal neural population for navigation?

Anne Nagelhus, Sebastian O. Andersson, Soledad Gonzalo Cogno, Edvard I. Moser, May-Britt Moser. Object-centered population coding in CA1 of the hippocampus. Neuron 111, 1–14, 2023.

Summary
Objects and landmarks are crucial for guiding navigation and must be integrated

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How the vestibular system influences the generation, maintenance, and updating of the head direction signal?

Jalina A. Graham, Julie R. Dumont, Shawn S. Winter, Joel E. Brown, Patrick A. LaChance, Carly C. Amon, Kara B. Farnes, Ashlyn J. Morris, Nicholas A. Streltzov, Jeffrey S. Taube. Angular head velocity cells within brainstem nuclei projecting to the

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How context recognition and heading retrieval are coded in CA1 and how these processes change with experience during spatial reorientation?

Celia M. Gagliardi, Marc E. Normandin, Alexandra T. Keinath, Joshua B. Julian, Matthew R. Lopez, Manuel-Miguel Ramos-Alvarez, Russell A. Epstein, and Isabel A. Muzzio. Distinct neural mechanisms for heading retrieval and context recognition in the hippocampus during spatial reorientation

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How the neural compass flexibly adapts to changing environmental cues to maintain a reliable representation of HD?

Zaki Ajabi, Alexandra T. Keinath, Xue-Xin Wei & Mark P. Brandon. Population dynamics of head-direction neurons during drift and reorientationNature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05813-2

Abstract
“The head direction (HD) system functions as the brain’s internal compass1,2, classically formalized as a …

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Which neural circuits utilize relevant cues to initiate integration?

Raphael Heldman, Dongyan Pang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Yingxue Wang. A CA1 circuit motif that signals the start of information integration. bioRxiv 2023.03.12.532295; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.12.532295

Abstract
Integrating information from the recent past is critical for guiding predictions and shaping behavior

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A Map of Spatial Navigation for Neuroscience

Eloy Parra-Barrero, Sandhiya Vijayabaskaran, Eddie Seabrook, Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng. A Map of Spatial Navigation for Neuroscience. 10.31219/osf.io/a86gq 

“An animal’s ability to navigate space is crucial to its survival. It is also cognitively demanding, and relatively easy to probe. …

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How the brain organizes of projections from the entorhinal cortex to the hippocampal formation of the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus?

Jacobsen B, Kleven H, Gatome W, Las L, Ulanovsky N, Witter MP. Organization of projections from the entorhinal cortex to the hippocampal formation of the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus. Hippocampus. 2023 Mar 3.

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The hippocampal formation

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How distinct hippocampal-prefrontal neural assemblies coordinate memory encoding, maintenance, and recall?

Aleksander P.F. Domanski, Michal T. Kucewicz, Eleonora Russo, Mark D. Tricklebank, Emma S.J. Robinson, Daniel Durstewitz, Matt W. Jones. Distinct hippocampal-prefrontal neural assemblies coordinate memory encoding, maintenance, and recall. Current Biology, 2023.

Summary
Short-term memory enables incorporation of

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