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“In …
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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 …
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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“Experiments that track hippocampal place cells in mice navigating the same real environment have found significant changes in …
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 …
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
Abstract
“Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide …
Angelo Forli, Wudi Fan, Kevin K. Qi & Michael M. Yartsev. Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats. Nature (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 …
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
Abstract
“Spatial memory plays a crucial role in guiding …
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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 …
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
Abstract
“Navigating …
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 …
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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“Modular structure and function are ubiquitous in biology, from the organization of animal brains and bodies to the …
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“Cognitive maps confer animals with flexible intelligence by representing spatial, temporal and abstract relationships that can be …
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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