Category: Cognitive Map

How do grid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity is dissociated from external sensory cues?

Torgeir Waaga, Haggai Agmon, Valentin A. Normand, Anne Nagelhus, Richard J. Gardner, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser, Yoram Burak. Grid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity is dissociated from external sensory cues, Neuron, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.03.011.

Summary
The representation

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How do freely flying bats keep a stable hippocampal code for navigation in changing environments?

William A. Liberti III, Tobias A. Schmid, Angelo Forli, Madeleine Snyder & Michael M. Yartsev. A stable hippocampal code in freely flying bats. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04560-0

Abstract
“Neural activity in the hippocampus is known to reflect how animals move …

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How population-level heading responses are aligned to visual input?

Kevin K. Sit, Michael J. Goard. Coregistration of heading to visual cues in retrosplenial cortex. bioRxiv 2022.03.25.485865; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.25.485865

Abstract
“Spatial cognition depends on an accurate representation of orientation within an environment. Head direction cells in distributed brain regions

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How do hippocampal replays adapt to spatial contingency changes?

John Widloski, David J. Foster. Flexible rerouting of hippocampal replay sequences around changing barriers in the absence of global place field remapping. Neuron, 2022, 110, 1–12.

Summary
“Flexibility is a hallmark of memories that depend on the hippocampus. For

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