How does the brain’s “navigation circuit” operate in real-world conditions?
Palgi S., Ray S., Maimon S. R., Waserman Y., Ben-Ari L., Eliav T., Tuval A., Cohen C., Ali A. I., Keyyu J. D., Mouritsen H., Las L. & Ulanovsky N. Head-direction cells as a neural compass in bats navigating outdoors …
How locomotor development shapes hippocampal spatial coding?
Marco P. Abrate, Laurenz Muessig, Francesca Cacucci, Joshua P. Bassett, Hui Min Tan, Thomas J. Wills, Caswell Barry. From movement to cognitive maps: recurrent neural networks reveal how locomotor development shapes hippocampal spatial coding. bioRxiv 2025.12.30.696864; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.30.696864
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How human, animals, robots encode and recall place?
Michael Milford and Tobias Fischer. Going Places: Place Recognition in Artificial and Natural Systems. Annu. Rev. Control Robot. Auton. Syst. 2026. 9:7.1-7.27:1–28. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-control-032724-014418
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“Place recognition—the ability to identify previously visited locations—is critical for both biological navigation and …
How the brain constructs time and space and how these are related to episodic memory？
Buzsáki, G. Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00987-2
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“Time and space are crucial concepts in neuroscience, because our personal memories are tied to specific events that occur ‘in’ a particular space and …
How environmental novelty modulate rapid cortical plasticity during navigation?
Alexander Attinger, Antonia Drinnenberg, Can Dong, Charu Ramakrishnan, La’Akea Siverts, Tanya L Daigle, Bosiljka Tasic, Hongkui Zeng, Sean Quirin, Karl Deisseroth, Lisa M Giocomo. Environmental Novelty Modulates Rapid Cortical Plasticity During Navigation.
bioRxiv 2025.10.21.683723; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.21.683723
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“In …
How the Hippocampal Cognitive Map Supports Flexible Navigation?
O’Keefe J. How the Hippocampal Cognitive Map Supports Flexible Navigation. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 2025 Apr 8;48.
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“During navigation to a goal, a portion of the hippocampal place cells exhibit directional preferences, firing more in some directions than …
How the geometric structure and underlying circuit organization of hippocampal population dynamics facilitate both memory discrimination and generalization, enabling efficient and flexible learning?
Wenbo Tang, Hongyu Chang, Can Liu, Salma Perez-Hernandez, William Y. Zheng, Jaehyo Park, Azahara Oliva, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz. A hippocampal population code for rapid generalization. bioRxiv 2025.03.15.643456; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.15.643456
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“Generalizing from experience and applying prior knowledge to new …
How hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments?
Climer, J.R., Davoudi, H., Oh, J.Y. et al. Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments. Nature 645, 457–465 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09245-y
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“Experiments that track hippocampal place cells in mice navigating the same real environment have found significant changes in …
How visual objects refine head direction coding?
Dominique Siegenthaler, Henry Denny, Sofía Skromne Carrasco, Johanna Luise Mayer, Daniel Levenstein,Adrien Peyrache, Stuart Trenholm, Émilie Macé. Visual objects refine head direction coding. Science, 389,eadu9828(2025).DOI:10.1126/science.adu9828
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“Animals use visual objects to guide navigation-related behaviors. However, visual object–preferring …
How cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code?
Manuel Valero, Pablo Abad-Perez, Andrea Gallardo, Marta Picco, Raquel García-Hernandez, Jorge Brotons, Anel Martínez-Félix, Robert Machold, Bernardo Rudy, György Buzsáki. Cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code. Science 389,eadv5638(2025). DOI:10.1126/science.adv5638
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“Identifying the computational roles …
How mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies?
Siddharth Jayakumar, Nicola Rigolli, Mackenzie W Mathis, Massimo Vergassola, Alexander Mathis, Venkatesh N Murthy. Mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies. bioRxiv 2025.08.27.672631; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.27.672631
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“Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide …
What’s the replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats?
Angelo Forli, Wudi Fan, Kevin K. Qi & Michael M. Yartsev. Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09341-z
Abstract
“Cognitive functions for navigation and memory rely on emergent properties of …
How allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells?
Sueoka, Y., Jayakumar, R.P., Madhav, M.S. et al. Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02038-6
Abstract
“Theta oscillation is considered a temporal scaffold for hippocampal computations that …
How the brain implement multimodal cue integration and learning in a neural representation of head direction?
Basnak, M.A., Kutschireiter, A., Okubo, T.S. et al. Multimodal cue integration and learning in a neural representation of head direction. Nat Neurosci 28, 1729–1740 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01823-z
Abstract
“Navigation requires us to take account of multiple spatial cues …
How to build a fully neuromorphic localization system capable of large-scale, on-device deployment for energy-efficient robotic place recognition?
Adam D. Hines, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer. A compact neuromorphic system for ultra–energy-efficient, on-device robot localization. Sci. Robot.10, eads3968(2025).DOI:10.1126/scirobotics.ads3968
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“Neuromorphic computing offers a transformative pathway to overcome the computational and energy challenges faced in deploying robotic localization …
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