Category: Cognitive Map

How environmental novelty modulate rapid cortical plasticity during navigation?

Alexander Attinger, Antonia Drinnenberg, Can Dong, Charu Ramakrishnan, La’Akea Siverts, Tanya L Daigle, Bosiljka Tasic, Hongkui Zeng, Sean Quirin, Karl Deisseroth, Lisa M Giocomo. Environmental Novelty Modulates Rapid Cortical Plasticity During Navigation
bioRxiv 2025.10.21.683723; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.21.683723

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In

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How the Hippocampal Cognitive Map Supports Flexible Navigation?

O’Keefe J. How the Hippocampal Cognitive Map Supports Flexible Navigation. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 2025 Apr 8;48.

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“During navigation to a goal, a portion of the hippocampal place cells exhibit directional preferences, firing more in some directions than …

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How the geometric structure and underlying circuit organization of hippocampal population dynamics facilitate both memory discrimination and generalization, enabling efficient and flexible learning?

Wenbo Tang, Hongyu Chang, Can Liu, Salma Perez-Hernandez, William Y. Zheng, Jaehyo Park, Azahara Oliva, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz. A hippocampal population code for rapid generalization. bioRxiv 2025.03.15.643456; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.15.643456

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Generalizing from experience and applying prior knowledge to new

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How hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments?

Climer, J.R., Davoudi, H., Oh, J.Y. et al. Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments. Nature 645, 457–465 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09245-y

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“Experiments that track hippocampal place cells in mice navigating the same real environment have found significant changes in …

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How cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code?

Manuel Valero, Pablo Abad-Perez, Andrea Gallardo, Marta Picco, Raquel García-Hernandez, Jorge Brotons, Anel Martínez-Félix, Robert Machold, Bernardo Rudy, György Buzsáki. Cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code. Science 389,eadv5638(2025). DOI:10.1126/science.adv5638

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Identifying the computational roles

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How mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies?

Siddharth Jayakumar, Nicola Rigolli, Mackenzie W Mathis, Massimo Vergassola, Alexander Mathis, Venkatesh N Murthy. Mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies. bioRxiv 2025.08.27.672631; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.27.672631

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Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide

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What’s the replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats?

Angelo Forli, Wudi Fan, Kevin K. Qi & Michael M. Yartsev. Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying batsNature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09341-z

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Cognitive functions for navigation and memory rely on emergent properties of

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How flexible navigation strategies emerge and evolve in freely moving non-human primates?

Nada El Mahmoudi, Francesca Lanzarini, Farzad Ziaie Nezhad, Deepak Surendran, Jean Laurens. From Exploration to Structured Navigation: Learning Dynamics of Freely Moving Marmosets during Foraging. bioRxiv 2025.03.22.644580; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.22.644580

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Spatial memory plays a crucial role in guiding

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How insect integrate spatial and temporal information?

Gkanias, E., Webb, B. Spatiotemporal computations in the insect celestial compass. Nat Commun 16, 2832 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57937-w

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Obtaining a geocentric directional reference from a celestial compass requires compensation for the sun’s movement during the day (relative to …

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How the brain coordinates and integrates allocentric, route-centered, and egocentric spatial reference frames at the network level during navigation?

Yicheng Zheng (征亦诚), Xinyu Zhou (周信羽), Shawn C. Moseley, Sydney M. Ragsdale, Leslie J. Alday, Wei Wu (吴畏) and Aaron A. Wilber. A Hippocampal-parietal Network for Reference Frame Coordination. Journal of Neuroscience, 5 February 2025, e1782242025; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1782-24.2025

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“Navigating …

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How spatial coding support auditory conceptual navigation in the entorhinal-hippocampal system?

Kyle Jasmin, Max Bullock, Frederic Dick, Roger Atkins, Roberto Bottini, Federica Sigismondi, Adam Tierney. Spatial coding supports auditory conceptual navigation. bioRxiv 2025.02.04.636440; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.04.636440

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Grid cells in human entorhinal cortex encode spatial layouts for real-world navigation, yet

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How to compose egocentric and allocentric maps for flexible navigation?

Daniel Shani, Peter Dayan. Composing egocentric and allocentric maps for flexible navigation. bioRxiv 2025.01.24.634748; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.24.634748

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Egocentric representations of the environment have historically been relegated to being used only for simple forms of spatial behaviour such as …

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How grid cell modules could emerge from local interaction?

Khona, M., Chandra, S. & Fiete, I. Global modules robustly emerge from local interactions and smooth gradientsNature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08541-3

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“Modular structure and function are ubiquitous in biology, from the organization of animal brains and bodies to the …

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How learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus?

Sun, W., Winnubst, J., Natrajan, M. et al. Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08548-w

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Cognitive maps confer animals with flexible intelligence by representing spatial, temporal and abstract relationships that can be

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How does the brain actually represent the real world with its complex, multianimal settings?

Saikat Ray, Itay Yona, Nadav Elami, Shaked Palgi, Kenneth W. Latimer, Bente Jacobsen, Menno P. Witter, Liora Las, and Nachum Ulanovsky. Hippocampal coding of identity, sex, hierarchy, and affiliation in a social group of wild fruit bats. Science 387,eadk9385(2025). …

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