James C.R. Whittington, David McCaffary, Jacob J.W. Bakermans, Timothy E.J. Behrens. How to build a cognitive map: insights from models of the hippocampal formation. arXiv:2202.01682 [q-bio.NC], 2022.
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“Learning and interpreting the structure of the environment is an innate …
Patrick A. LaChance, Jalina Graham, Benjamin L. Shapiro, Ashlyn J. Morris, Jeffrey S. Taube. Landmark-modulated directional coding in postrhinal cortex. SCIENCE ADVANCES, 28 Jan 2022, Vol 8, Issue 4. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg8404
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“Visual landmarks can anchor an animal’s …
Kauê Machado Costa, Robert Scholz, Kevin Lloyd, Perla Moreno-Castilla, Matthew P.H. Gardner, Peter Dayan, Geoffrey Schoenbaum. The role of the orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps. bioRxiv 2022.01.25.477716
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“We use internal models of the external world to …
Aaron D Milstein, Yiding Li, Katie C Bittner, Christine Grienberger, Ivan Soltesz, Jeffrey C Magee, Sandro Romani. Bidirectional synaptic plasticity rapidly modifies hippocampal representations. eLife 2021;10:e73046 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.73046
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“Learning requires neural adaptations thought to be mediated by activity-dependent …
Mathew T. Summers, Marla B. Feller. Distinct Inhibitory Pathways Control Velocity and Directional Tuning in the Retina. bioRxiv 2022.01.13.476257; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.13.476257
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“The sensory periphery is responsible for detecting ethologically relevant features of the external world, using compact, predominantly …
Marcelo G. Mattar, Máté Lengyel. Planning in the brain. Neuron, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.12.018.
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“Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled machines to plan in tasks previously thought to be uniquely human. Meanwhile, the planning algorithms implemented by the …
Olesia M Bilash, Spyridon Chavlis, Panayiota Poirazi, Jayeeta Basu. Lateral entorhinal cortex inputs modulate hippocampal dendritic excitability by recruiting a local disinhibitory microcircuit. bioRxiv 2022.01.13.476247; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.13.476247
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“The lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) provides information about multi-sensory environmental …
Nils Nyberg, Éléonore Duvelle, Caswell Barry, Hugo J. Spiers. Spatial goal coding in the hippocampal formation. Neuron, January 14, 2022. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.12.012
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“The mammalian hippocampal formation contains several distinct populations of neurons involved in representing self-position and orientation. These …
Kadjita Asumbisa, Adrien Peyrache, Stuart Trenholm. Flexible cue anchoring strategies enable stable head direction coding in both sighted and blind animals. bioRxiv 2022.01.12.476111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.12.476111
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“Vision plays a crucial role in instructing the brain’s spatial navigation systems…
Jean-Paul Noel and Dora E. Angelaki. Cognitive, Systems, and Computational Neurosciences of the Self in Motion. Annual Review of Psychology. Vol. 73:103-129 (Volume publication date January 2022). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-021021-103038
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“Navigating by path integration requires continuously estimating one’s self-motion. …
Richard J. Gardner, Erik Hermansen, Marius Pachitariu, Yoram Burak, Nils A. Baas, Benjamin A. Dunn, May-Britt Moser & Edvard I. Moser. Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04268-7
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“The medial entorhinal cortex is part …
Wenbo Tang and Shantanu P. Jadhav. Multiple-Timescale Representations of Space: Linking Memory to Navigation. Annual Review of Neuroscience. Vol. 45:- (Volume publication date July 2022). Review in Advance first posted online on December 22, 2021. (Changes may still …
Lynn Nadel. The hippocampal formation and action at a distance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2021, 118 (51) e2119670118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2119670118
“Why is it that the same neural system is so intimately involved in aspects …
Cheng Lyu, L. F. Abbott & Gaby Maimon. Building an allocentric travelling direction signal via vector computation. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04067-0
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“Many behavioural tasks require the manipulation of mathematical vectors, but, outside of computational models1,2,3,4,5,6,7, it is not known …
Cindy Poo, Gautam Agarwal, Niccolò Bonacchi & Zachary F. Mainen. Spatial maps in piriform cortex during olfactory navigation. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04242-3
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“Odours are a fundamental part of the sensory environment used by animals to guide behaviours such …
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