How heading neurons in the Drosophila central complex guide moment-to-moment navigational behavior?
Jonathan Green, Vikram Vijayan, Peter Mussells Pires, Atsuko Adachi & Gaby Maimon. A neural heading estimate is compared with an internal goal to guide oriented navigation. Nature Neuroscience, 22 July 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0444-x
Abstract
“Goal-directed navigation is thought to …
How to enable robots to navigate the moon?
A latest IEEE Spectrum Report titled ‘Robots Will Navigate the Moon With Maps They Make Themselves‘ by Prachi Patel has been published.
Astrobotic’s autonomous navigation will help lunar landers, rovers, and drones find their way on the moon. …
How does the brain process spatial coordinate system transformations?
Andrew Alexander, Lucas Carstensen, James Hinman, Florian Raudies, G. William Chapman, Michael Hasselmo. Egocentric boundary vector tuning of the retrosplenial cortex. bioRxiv 702712; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/702712
Abstract
” The retrosplenial cortex is reciprocally connected with a majority of structures implicated …
How does rat place cells encode 3D volumetric space?
Roddy M Grieves, Selim Jedidi-Ayoub, Karyna Mishchanchuk, Anyi Liu, Sophie Renaudineau, Kate J Jeffery. The place-cell representation of volumetric space in rats. bioRxiv 698175; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/698175
Abstract
“Place cells are spatially modulated neurons found in the hippocampus that underlie …
How does the brain transform egocentric information into an allocentric spatial reference frame?
Patrick A. LaChance, Travis P. Todd, Jeffrey S. Taube. A sense of space in postrhinal cortex. Science 12 Jul 2019: Vol. 365, Issue 6449, eaax4192 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax4192
Abstract
“A topographic representation of local space is critical for navigation and …
How does the 3D neural compass work in the mouse brain?
Angelaki, Dora E., Julia Ng, Amada M. Abrego, Henry X. Cham, J. D. Dickman, and Jean Laurens. “A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain.” bioRxiv (2019): 570382.
Summary
“Head direction cells in the mammalian limbic system are …
Are there different kinds of head direction cells in the brain?
Dudchenko, Paul A., Emma R. Wood, and Anna Smith. “A new perspective on the head direction cell system and spatial behavior.” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2019).
Highlights
• Damage to the head direction circuit produces only modest impairments …
How the brain remembers where you’re heading to?
Kunz, Lukas, Liang Wang, Daniel Lachner-Piza, Hui Zhang, Armin Brandt, Matthias Dümpelmann, Peter C. Reinacher et al. “Hippocampal theta phases organize the reactivation of large-scale electrophysiological representations during goal-directed navigation.” Science Advances 5, no. 7 (2019): eaav8192.
Abstract
Humans are …
How hippocampus adds time to episodic memories?
Cox, Brittney M., Conor D. Cox, Benjamin G. Gunn, Aliza A. Le, Victoria C. Inshishian, Christine M. Gall, and Gary Lynch. “Acquisition of temporal order requires an intact CA3 commissural/associational (C/A) feedback system in mice.” Communications Biology 2, no. 1 …
How 3D vision neurons in insect brains compute 3D distance and direction?
Ronny Rosner, Joss von Hadeln, Ghaith Tarawneh & Jenny C. A. Read. A neuronal correlate of insect stereopsis. Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 2845 (2019)
Abstract
A puzzle for neuroscience—and robotics—is how insects achieve surprisingly complex behaviours with …
How to implement 6DoF state estimation on 3D manifold based on neural dynamics?
State estimation in high dimensional space is a big challenge problem. Commonly, we use Lie group to implement 6DoF state estimation in 3D space. However, how does the brain implement path integration in 3D space based on neural dynamics?
Low …
How the brain controls movement in high dimensional space?
Gallego, Juan A., Matthew G. Perich, Lee E. Miller, and Sara A. Solla. “Neural manifolds for the control of movement.” Neuron 94, no. 5 (2017): 978-984.
Abstract
The analysis of neural dynamics in several brain cortices has consistently …
3D Grid Cell Visualisation Software
3D grid cell visualisation software was developed by Misun Kim at the Memory and Space Laboratory of Professor Eleanor Maguire, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK.
This software has two main goals.
First, to visualize the …
Whether entorhinal velocity signals are equally influenced or provide a universal metric for self-motion across environments?
Munn, Robert GK, Caitlin S. Mallory, Kiah Hardcastle, Dane M. Chetkovich, and Lisa M. Giocomo. “Entorhinal velocity signals reflect environmental geometry.” bioRxiv (2019): 671222. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/671222
Summary
The entorhinal cortex contains neural signals for representing self-location, including grid …
How is three-dimensional space encoded in the brain?
We live in a three-dimensional world. Questions about how we perceive and represent the three-dimensional world that surrounds us have occupied humankind for centuries.
Some of Nachum Ulanovsky’s group main results in recent years included: the finding that in flight,…
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