Category: Cognitive Navigation

How the brain uses diverse sensory information to generate a stable directional representation of space?

Kadjita Asumbisa, Adrien Peyrache & Stuart Trenholm. Flexible cue anchoring strategies enable stable head direction coding in both sighted and blind animals. Nat Commun 13, 5483 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33204-0

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Vision plays a crucial role in instructing the brain’s

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What’s the neural dynamics for landmark orientation and angular path integration?

Seelig, J., Jayaraman, V. Neural dynamics for landmark orientation and angular path integration. Nature 521, 186–191 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14446

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Many animals navigate using a combination of visual landmarks and path integration. In mammalian brains, head direction cells

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How the brain combines sensory information and internal models of control dynamics for self-motion perception and navigation?

Akis Stavropoulos, Kaushik J Lakshminarasimhan, Jean Laurens, Xaq Pitkow, Dora E Angelaki (2022) . Influence of sensory modality and control dynamics on human path integration. eLife 11:e63405.

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Path integration is a sensorimotor computation that can be used

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How specific firing patterns and oscillatory dynamics in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus can support both navigation and memory?

Buzsáki, G., Moser, E. Memory, navigation and theta rhythm in the hippocampal-entorhinal systemNat Neurosci 16, 130–138 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3304

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“Theories on the functions of the hippocampal system are based largely on two fundamental discoveries: the amnestic consequences …

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What is known about the role of the hippocampus in processing auditory information, and how the hippocampus itself is shaped by sound?

Alexander J. Billig, Meher Lad, William Sedley, Timothy D. Griffiths. The hearing hippocampus. Progress in Neurobiology, Volume 218, 2022, 102326.

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The hippocampus has a well-established role in spatial and episodic memory but a broader function has been

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Howretrohippocampal neurons encode location through ramping activity?

Tennant, Sarah A., Harry Clark, Ian Hawes, Wing Kin Tam, Junji Hua, Wannan Yang, Klara Z. Gerlei, Emma R. Wood, and Matthew F. Nolan. “Spatial representation by ramping activity of neurons in the retrohippocampal cortex.” Current Biology, September

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How temporal information is represented and used during prospective and retrospective timing?

Tsao, A., Yousefzadeh, S.A., Meck, W.H. et al. The neural bases for timing of durationsNat Rev Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-022-00623-3

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Durations are defined by a beginning and an end, and a major distinction is drawn between durations

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How hippocampal activity supports building predictive models by organizing newly learned information according to its congruence with existing memories?

Adam M. P. Miller, Alex D. Jacob, Adam I. Ramsaran, Mitchell L. De Snoo, Sheena A. Josselyn, Paul W. Frankland. Evolution of predictive memory in the hippocampus. bioRxiv 2022.09.08.507204; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.08.507204

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“The brain organizes experiences into memories that …

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How hippocampal astrocytes encode reward location?

Adi Doron, Alon Rubin, Aviya Benmelech-Chovav, Netai Benaim, Tom Carmi, Ron Refaeli, Nechama Novick, Tirzah Kreisel, Yaniv Ziv & Inbal Goshen. Hippocampal astrocytes encode reward location. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05146-6

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“Astrocytic calcium dynamics has been implicated in the encoding …

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How brain hippocampal circuits represent switches between diferent behaviours rapidly and flexibility?

Ayelet Sarel, Shaked Palgi, Dan Blum, Johnatan Aljadeff, Liora Las & Nachum Ulanovsky. Natural switches in behaviour rapidly modulate hippocampal coding. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05112-2

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Throughout their daily lives, animals and humans often switch between different behaviours. …

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How does the brain process coordinated head direction representations in mouse anterodorsal thalamic nucleus and retrosplenial cortex?

Marie-Sophie H van der Goes, Jakob Voigts, Jonathan P Newman, Enrique H S Toloza, Norma J Brown, Pranav Murugan, Mark T Harnett. Coordinated Head Direction Representations in Mouse Anterodorsal Thalamic Nucleus and Retrosplenial Cortex. bioRxiv 2022.08.20.504604; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.20.504604

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How hippocampal CA2 processes spatial novelty?

Bhasin, Guncha, and Indrajith R. Nair. “Dynamic hippocampal CA2 responses to contextual spatial novelty.” Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience: 79, 2022

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“Hippocampal place cells are functional units of spatial navigation and are present in all subregions: CA1, CA2, …

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How many migrating species navigate across vast distances?

Myles H. M. Menz, Martina Scacco, Hans-Martin Bürki-Spycher, Hannah J. Williams,Don R. Reynolds, Jason W. Chapman, Martin Wikelski. Individual tracking reveals long-distance flight-pathcontrol in a nocturnally migrating moth. SCIENCE, 11 Aug 2022,Vol 377, Issue 6607, pp. 764-768, DOI: 10.1126/science.abn1663…

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Where and how odor and wind cues are integrated to support wind-guided olfactory navigation?

Andrew M. M. Matheson, Aaron J. Lanz, Ashley M. Medina, Al M. Licata, Timothy A. Currier, Mubarak H. Syed & Katherine I. Nagel. A neural circuit for wind-guided olfactory navigation. Nat Commun 13, 4613 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32247-7

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To

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How landmark information reaches the hippocampus?

Elizabeth A.M.A. Allison, Joe W. Moore, Paul A. Dudchenko, Emma R. Wood. The medial entorhinal cortex is necessary for the stimulus control over hippocampal place fields by distal, but not proximal, landmarks. bioRxiv 2022.08.04.502628; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.04.502628

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