Category: Cognitive Map

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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How landmark information reaches the hippocampus?

Elizabeth A.M.A. Allison, Joe W. Moore, Paul A. Dudchenko, Emma R. Wood. The medial entorhinal cortex is necessary for the stimulus control over hippocampal place fields by distal, but not proximal, landmarks. bioRxiv 2022.08.04.502628; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.04.502628

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How conjunctive and complementary CA1 hippocampal cell populations relate sensory events to immobility and locomotion?

Samsoon Inayat, Brendan B McAllister, Bruce L McNaughton, Ian Q Whishaw, Majid H Mohajerani. Conjunctive and complementary CA1 hippocampal cell populations relate sensory events to immobility and locomotion. bioRxiv 2022.07.06.498996; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.06.498996

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The way in which the

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How the brain associate multiple sensory cues with objects and experience?

Scott Waddell, Zeynep Okray, Pedro F Jacob, Ciara Stern, Kieran Desmond, Nils Otto, Paola Vargas-Gutierrez. Multisensory learning binds modality-specific neurons into a cross-modal memory engram. bioRxiv 2022.07.08.499174; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.08.499174

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Associating multiple sensory cues with objects and experience

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How information about objects is represented in collective dynamics of the hippocampal population?

Anne Nagelhus, Sebastian Andersson, Soledad Gonzalo Cogno, Edvard I. Moser, May-Britt Moser. Object-centered population coding in CA1 of the hippocampus. bioRxiv 2022.07.07.499197; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.07.499197

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Objects and landmarks are crucial for guiding navigation and must be integrated into

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How the hippocampus creates a vector-based model to support flexible navigation, allowing animals to select optimal paths to destinations from any location in the environment?

Ormond, J., O’Keefe, J. Hippocampal place cells have goal-oriented vector fields during navigation. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04913-9

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“The hippocampal cognitive map supports navigation towards, or away from, salient locations in familiar environments1. Although much is known about how the

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How navigation task and action space drive the emergence of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations?

Sandhiya Vijayabaskaran, Sen Cheng. Navigation task and action space drive the emergence of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations. bioRxiv 2022.06.22.497126; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.22.497126

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“In general, strategies for spatial navigation could employ one of two spatial reference frames: egocentric or …

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How to implement closed-loop control and recalibration of place cells by optic flow?

Manu S Madhav, Ravikrishnan P Jayakumar, Brian Y Li, Francesco Savelli, James J Knierim, Noah J Cowan. Closed-loop control and recalibration of place cells by optic flow. bioRxiv 2022.06.12.495823; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.12.495823

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“Understanding the interplay between sensory input, endogenous …

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How does the brain maintain a stable head direction representation in naturalistic visual environments?

Hannah Haberkern, Shivam S Chitnis, Philip M Hubbard, Tobias Goulet, Ann M Hermundstad, Vivek Jayaraman. Maintaining a stable head direction representation in naturalistic visual environments. bioRxiv 2022.05.17.492284; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.17.492284

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Many animals rely on a representation of head

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How can small networks accurately track an animal’s movements to guide navigation?

Marcella Noorman, Brad K Hulse, Vivek Jayaraman, Sandro Romani, Ann M Hermundstad. Accurate angular integration with only a handful of neurons. bioRxiv 2022.05.23.493052; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.23.493052

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To flexibly navigate, many animals rely on internal spatial representations that persist

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How can a joint spatiotemporal phase code implement the combined neural representation of space and time in the human entorhinal cortex?

Nadasdy, Z., Howell, D., Török, Á., Nguyen, T. P., Shen, J. Y., Briggs, D. E., Modur, P. N., & Buchanan, R. J. (2022). Phase coding of spatial representations in the human entorhinal cortexScience advances8(18), eabm6081. …

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How Drosophila LPLC1 neurons implement a selective collision avoidance behavior by pooling outputs of motion and object detectors, as well as spatially biased inhibition?

Ryosuke Tanaka, Damon A. Clark. Neural mechanisms to exploit positional geometry for collision avoidance,
Current Biology, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.023.

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Visual motion provides rich geometrical cues about the three-dimensional configuration of the world. However, how brains decode the

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Whether network oscillation occurs in MEC at behavioural time scales in the second-to-minute regime such as spatial navigation and episodic memory?

Soledad Gonzalo Cogno, Horst A. Obenhaus, Ragnhild Irene Jacobsen, Flavio Donato, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser. Minute-scale oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex. bioRxiv 2022.05.02.490273; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.02.490273

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The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) hosts many of the brain’s

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