Category: Cognitive Map

Whether the compression of time cells obeys the Weber-Fechner Law?

Rui Cao, John H. Bladon, Stephen J. Charczynski, Michael E. Hasselmo, Marc W. Howard. Internally Generated Time in the Rodent Hippocampus is Logarithmically Compressed. bioRxiv 2021.10.25.465750; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.25.465750

Abstract
“The Weber-Fechner law proposes that our perceived sensory input increases …

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How hippocampal neurons with object-anchored firing fields contribute to homing based on path integration in navigation?

Maryam Najafian Jazi, Adrian Tymorek, Ting Yung Yen, Felix Jose Kavarayil, Moritz Stingl, Sherman Richard Chau, Benay Baskurt, Celia Garcia Vilela, Kevin Allen. Hippocampal firing fields anchored to a moving object predict homing direction during path-integration-based behavior. bioRxiv 2022.09.30.510268; doi: …

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How the brain generalize prior knowledge to solve novel problems by abstracting common structure and mapping it onto new sensorimotor specifics?

Samborska, V., Butler, J.L., Walton, M.E. et al. Complementary task representations in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex for generalizing the structure of problems. Nat Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01149-8

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Humans and other animals effortlessly generalize prior knowledge to solve novel

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How to build a cognitive map?

Whittington, J.C.R., McCaffary, D., Bakermans, J.J.W. et al. How to build a cognitive map. Nat Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01153-y

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“Learning and interpreting the structure of the environment is an innate feature of biological systems, and is integral to guiding …

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How hippocampal cellular diversity relates to the different hippocampal network computations that support memory-guided behavior?

Ryan E Harvey, Heath L Robinson, Can Liu, Azahara Oliva, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz. Hippocampo-cortical circuits for selective memory encoding, routing, and replay. bioRxiv 2022.09.25.509420; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.25.509420

Abstract
“Traditionally considered a homogeneous cell type, hippocampal pyramidal cells have been recently shown

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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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How the cross-modal identity of multiple conspecifics are represented in the marmoset hippocampus?

Timothy J Tyree, Michael Metke, Cory T Miller. Cross-Modal Representation of Identity in Primate Hippocampus. bioRxiv 2022.09.12.507611; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.12.507611

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“Faces and voices are the dominant social signals used to recognize individuals amongst human and nonhuman primates 1–5. Yet, …

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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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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 the hippocampal formation handles the embedding of stimuli in multiple relational structures that differ vastly in terms of their mode and timescale of acquisition: Does it integrate the different stimulus dimensions into one conjunctive map, or is each dimension represented in a parallel map?

Xiaochen Y. Zheng, Martin N. Hebart, Raymond J. Dolan, Christian F. Doeller, Roshan Cools, Mona M. Garvert. Parallel cognitive maps for short-term statistical and long-term semantic relationships in the hippocampal formation. bioRxiv 2022.08.29.505742; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.29.505742

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The hippocampal-entorhinal

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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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