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How are hippocampal cognitive maps used and updated flexibly for inference?

Mona M. Garvert, Tankred Saanum, Eric Schulz, Nicolas W. Schuck, Christian F. Doeller. Hippocampal spatio-temporal cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. bioRxiv 2021.10.22.465012; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.22.465012

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“The brain forms cognitive maps of relational knowledge, an organizing principle thought …

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Whether are some head direction cells sensitive to magnetic direction in a migratory bird ?

Takahashi, Susumu, Takumi Hombe, Sakiko Matsumoto, Kaoru Ide, and Ken Yoda. “Head direction cells in a migratory bird prefer north.” Science Advances 8, no. 5 (2022): eabl6848.

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“Animals exhibit remarkable navigation abilities as if they have an …

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How information about spatial landmarks and movement is encoded in the first stage of the hippocampus, the dentate gyrus？

Sebnem N. Tuncdemir, Andres D. Grosmark, Gergely F. Turi, Amei Shank, John C. Bowler, Gokhan Ordek, Attila Losonczy, Rene Hen, Clay O. Lacefield. Parallel processing of sensory cue and spatial information in the dentate gyrus. Cell Reports, Volume 38, …

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Whether place cells encode the angular and linear position as well as motion direction of a simple stimulus, regardless of self-motion, memory or reward?

Chinmay S. Purandare, Shonali Dhingra, Rodrigo Rios, Cliff Vuong, Thuc To, Ayaka Hachisuka, Krishna Choudhary & Mayank R. Mehta. Moving bar of light evokes vectorial spatial selectivity in the immobile rat hippocampus. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04404-x

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“Visual cortical neurons …

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How to build a cognitive map？

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 …

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How visual landmarks are integrated into a framework that supports the neural encoding of landmark-based orientation？

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 …

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What’s the role of the orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps?

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 …

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