Whether humans represent a curved surface by building a dimension-reduced flattened 2D map or a full 3D map?

Misun Kim, Christian F. Doeller. Adaptive cognitive maps for curved surfaces in the 3D world.  

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“Terrains in a 3D world can be undulating. Yet, most prior research has exclusively investigated spatial representations on a …

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How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation?

Xuelong Sun, Shigang Yue, Michael Mangan. How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation. bioRxiv 2021.08.18.456777; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.18.456777

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“The central complex of the insect midbrain is thought to coordinate insect guidance strategies. Computational models can account for …

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How do the neurons in rat retrosplenial cortex encode environment symmetry?

Ningyu Zhang, Roddy M Grieves, Kate J Jeffery. Environment symmetry drives a multidirectional code in rat retrosplenial cortex. bioRxiv 2021.08.22.457261; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.22.457261

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A class of neurons showing bidirectional tuning in a two-compartment environment was recently discovered in …

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How do 3D grid cells represent 3D space?

Gily Ginosar, Johnatan Aljadeff, Yoram Burak, Haim Sompolinsky, Liora Las & Nachum Ulanovsky. Locally ordered representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortexNature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03783-x

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“As animals navigate on a two-dimensional surface, neurons in the medial entorhinal …

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How entorhinal grid cells encode volumetric space?

Grieves, R.M., Jedidi-Ayoub, S., Mishchanchuk, K. et al. Irregular distribution of grid cell firing fields in rats exploring a 3D volumetric space. Nat Neurosci (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00907-4

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We investigated how entorhinal grid cells encode volumetric space. On a …

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How does the human brain encode egocentric spatial maps?

Lukas Kunz, Armin Brandt, Peter C. Reinacher, Bernhard P. Staresina, Eric T. Reifenstein, Christoph T. Weidemann, Nora A. Herweg, Ansh Patel, Melina Tsitsiklis, Richard Kempter, Michael J. Kahana, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Joshua Jacobs. A neural code for egocentric spatial maps in

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How does the hippocampus represent 3D space in past, present and future?

Nicholas M. Dotson and Michael M. Yartsev. Nonlocal spatiotemporal representation in the hippocampus of freely flying bats. SCIENCE 09 JUL 2021 : 242-247

“The neural code for 3D map–based navigation in area CA1 of bats forms a continuum through …

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