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How bees achieve vertebrate-like, high-level navigation behaviors with far fewer neurons in their brains?

Patel RN, Roberts NS, Kempenaers J, Zadel A, Heinze S. Parallel vector memories in the brain of a bee as foundation for flexible navigation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024 Jul 23;121(30):e2402509121.

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Insects navigate by

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How to brain to implemnt control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow?

Madhav, M.S., Jayakumar, R.P., Li, B.Y. et al. Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow. Nat Neurosci 27, 1599–1608 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01681-9

Abstract
“Hippocampal place cells are influenced by both self-motion (idiothetic) signals and external …

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How visual information becomes encoded by the brain’s navigation systems?

Dubanet, O. and Higley, M.J., 2024. Retrosplenial inputs drive visual representations in the medial entorhinal cortex. Cell Reports, 43(7).

Summary
The importance of visual cues for navigation and goal-directed behavior is well established, although the neural mechanisms supporting

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How neural population dynamics flexibly adapt during different behavioural states to govern the speed and stability of sensory encoding?

Horrocks, E.A.B., Rodrigues, F.R. & Saleem, A.B. Flexible neural population dynamics govern the speed and stability of sensory encoding in mouse visual cortex. Nat Commun 15, 6415 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50563-y

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“Time courses of neural responses underlie real-time sensory processing …

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How hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes?

Irina Barnaveli, Simone Viganò, Daniel Reznik, Patrick Haggard, Christian F. Doeller. Hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes. bioRxiv 2024.07.04.602119; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.04.602119

Efficiently interacting with the environment requires weighing and selecting among

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How retrosplenial inputs drive visual representations in the medial entorhinal cortex?

Dubanet, Olivier, and Michael J. Higley. “Retrosplenial inputs drive visual representations in the medial entorhinal cortex.” Cell Reports 43.7 (2024).

Summary
“The importance of visual cues for navigation and goal-directed behavior is well established, although the neural mechanisms

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Whether and how neural dynamics of hippocampal neurons are influenced by the presence and actions of human experimenters?

Snyder, M.C., Qi, K.K. & Yartsev, M.M. Neural representation of human experimenters in the bat hippocampusNat Neurosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01690-8

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“Here we conducted wireless electrophysiological recording of hippocampal neurons from Egyptian fruit bats in the presence of human

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How the brain perform control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow?

Madhav, M.S., Jayakumar, R.P., Li, B.Y. et al. Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow. Nat Neurosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01681-9

Abstract
Hippocampal place cells are influenced by both self-motion (idiothetic) signals and external sensory

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What’s the human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation?

Martin Seeber, Matthias Stangl, Mauricio Vallejo, Uros Topalovic, Sonja Hiller, Casey H. Halpern, Jean-Philippe Langevin, Vikram R. Rao, Itzhak Fried, Dawn Eliashiv, Nanthia Suthana. Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation. bioRxiv 2024.05.23.595237; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.23.595237

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The

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How medial entorhinal cortex mediates learning of context-dependent interval timing behavior?

Bigus, E.R., Lee, HW., Bowler, J.C. et al. Medial entorhinal cortex mediates learning of context-dependent interval timing behavior. Nat Neurosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01683-7

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Episodic memory requires encoding the temporal structure of experience and relies on brain circuits in

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How animals simultaneously map their surroundings and tether goals to these surroundings during early experience in a novel environment?

Dan, Chuntao, Brad K. Hulse, Ramya Kappagantula, Vivek Jayaraman and Ann M. Hermundstad. “A neural circuit architecture for rapid learning in goal-directed navigation.” Neuron (2024): DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.04.036

Summary
Anchoring goals to spatial representations enables flexible navigation but is

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How the primate entorhinal cortex support mental navigation?

Neupane, S., Fiete, I. & Jazayeri, M. Mental navigation in the primate entorhinal cortex. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07557-z

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A cognitive map is a suitably structured representation that enables novel computations using previous experience; for example, planning a …

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How existing motor memories are maintained as new motor skills are continuously acquired?

Jae-Hyun Kim, Kayvon Daie, Nuo Li. A combinatorial neural code for long-term motor memory. bioRxiv 2024.06.05.597627; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.05.597627

Abstract
Motor skill repertoire can be stably retained over long periods, but the neural mechanism underlying stable memory storage remains

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What’s the mechanism of spatial periodic computation of hippocampus-entorhinal circuit in navigation?

Bo Zhang, Jia Liu. The spatial periodic computation of hippocampus-entorhinal circuit in navigation. bioRxiv 2022.01.29.478346; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.29.478346

Summary
“To achieve the computational goal of navigating in both physical and mental spaces, human brain employs a cognitive map constructed by …

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What’s the mechanisms and function of grid cells in cognition?

Ling L. Dong, and Ila R. Fiete. Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2024. 47:345–68. 

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“The activity patterns of grid cells form distinctively regular triangular lattices over the explored spatial environment and are …

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