How navigation and memory processes interact in humans?

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

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What are the brain mechanisms underlying spatial navigation in birds?

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.

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Birds travel long distances and navigate in

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How retrosplenial cortex computes heading direction from landmark information?

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

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How the hippocampus incorporates new contextual information into a previously formed and stabilized spatial representation?

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

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Study of the hippocampal place cell system has greatly enhanced our

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Whether hippocampal time cells represent context-dependent experience or time per se?

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

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“Navigation and episodic memory depend critically on representing temporal sequences. Hippocampal ‘time cells’ form

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How hippocampal neural circuits achieve efficient spatial representations using dynamic hyperbolic geometry?

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

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Daily experience suggests that we perceive distances near us linearly.

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How the activity of single grid cells is related to the sum activity of a population of grid cells?

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

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Grid cells are neurons in the entorhinal cortex that play a key

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