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Category: Cognitive Map

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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