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
Abstract
“We investigated how place cells resolve spatial ambiguities, such as identical compartments …
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
Abstract
“Recent work in cognitive and systems …
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 …
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 …
Mona M. Garvert, Tankred Saanum, Eric Schulz, Nicolas W. Schuck & Christian F. Doeller. Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. Nat Neurosci (2023).
Abstract
“The brain forms cognitive maps of relational knowledge—an organizing principle thought to underlie …
Wenbo Tang, Justin D. Shin, Shantanu P. Jadhav. Geometric transformation of cognitive maps for generalization across hippocampal-prefrontal circuits. Cell Reports 42, 112246, March 28, 2023.
Summary
“The ability to abstract information to guide decisions during navigation across changing …
Teixeira De Almeida, M., Faulmann, I., Seeber, M., Gschwend, K., Maurer, R., & Burra, N. 2023. Electrophysiological correlates of distance and direction processing during cognitive map retrieval: A source analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 42.
“The aim …
Benjamin J Griffiths, Thomas Schreiner, Julia Schaefer, Christian Vollmar, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Stefanie Quach, Jan Remi, Soheyl Noachtar, Tobias Staudigl. Electrophysiological signatures of veridical head direction in humans. bioRxiv 2023.01.26.525724; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.26.525724
Abstract
“Information about heading direction is critical for …
Thomas Schreiner, Benjamin J. Griffiths, Merve Kutlu, Christian Vollmar, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Stefanie Quach, Jan Remi, Soheyl Noachtar, Tobias Staudigl. Memory reactivation of real-world spatial orientation revealed by human electrophysiology. bioRxiv 2023.01.27.525854; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.27.525854
Abstract
“Spatial navigation and memory …
Agarwal A, Sarel A, Derdikman D, Ulanovsky N, Gutfreund Y. Spatial coding in the hippocampus and hyperpallium of flying owls. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2023 Jan 31;120(5):e2212418120.
Significance
“Birds travel long distances and navigate in …
Eleonora Lomi, Kate Jeffery, Anna Mitchell. Convergence of direction, location and theta in the rat anteroventral thalamic nucleus. bioRxiv 2023.01.11.523585; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.11.523585
Abstract
“Retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is a cortical region that computes heading direction from landmark information, but …
Jake Ormond, Simon A. Serka, Joshua P. Johansen. Enhanced reactivation of remapping place cells during aversive learning. Journal of Neuroscience 3 January 2023, JN-RM-1450-22; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1450-22.2022
Abstract
“Study of the hippocampal place cell system has greatly enhanced our …
David B. Omer, Liora Las & Nachum Ulanovsky. Contextual and pure time coding for self and other in the hippocampus. Nat Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01226-y
Abstract
“Navigation and episodic memory depend critically on representing temporal sequences. Hippocampal ‘time cells’ form …
Huanqiu Zhang, P. Dylan Rich, Albert K. Lee & Tatyana O. Sharpee. Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience. Nat Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01212-4
Abstract
“Daily experience suggests that we perceive distances near us linearly. …
Ikhwan Bin Khalid, Eric T. Reifenstein, Naomi Auer, Lukas Kunz, Richard Kempter. Quantitative modeling of the emergence of macroscopic grid-like representations. bioRxiv 2022.12.20.521210; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.20.521210
Abstract
“Grid cells are neurons in the entorhinal cortex that play a key …
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