How to decode sensory and behavioural variables directly from wide-band neural data?

Markus Frey, Sander Tanni, Catherine Perrodin, Alice O’Leary, Matthias Nau, Jack Kelly, Andrea Banino, Christian F Doeller, Caswell Barry. DeepInsight: A general framework for interpreting wide-band neural activity. bioRxiv 871848; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/871848

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“Rapid progress in technologies such as …

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How the Human Brain Perform the Retrieval of Large-Scale Spatial Environments?

Derek J. Huffman, Arne D. Ekstrom, A Modality-Independent Network Underlies the Retrieval of Large-Scale Spatial Environments in the Human Brain, Neuron, Volume 104, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 611-622.e7, ISSN 0896-6273, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.012.

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In humans, the extent to which

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How rats explored a layered pyramid placed in a large open field?

Hagbi, Z., Dorfman, A., Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, E. et al. “It’s all in their head”: hierarchical exploration of a three-dimensional layered pyramid in rats. Anim Cogn (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-019-01332-8

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Wayfinding in a three-dimensional (3D) environment is intricate, and surface-bounded animals

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What’s the effect of the differences on the dynamics of the heading direction circuit of two insect species

Ioannis Pisokas, Stanley Heinze, Barbara Webb. The heading direction circuit of two insect species.  bioRxiv 854521; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/854521

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Recent studies of the Central Complex in the brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have identified neurons with localised

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How the human brain encodes allocentric boundary and goal direction information?

Shine, J.P., Valdés-Herrera, J.P., Tempelmann, C. et al. Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculumNat Commun 10, 4004 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11802-9

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“In rodents, cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (EC) …

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How the entorhinal cortex supports landmark-based navigation and path integration?

Xiaoli Chen, Paula Vieweg, Thomas Wolbers.Computing distance information from landmarks and self-motion cues – Differential contributions of anterior-lateral vs. posterior-medial entorhinal cortex in humans. NeuroImage, Volume 202,2019, 116074, ISSN 1053-8119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116074.

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“Landmarks and path integration cues are

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How the Spiking Neural Network allows for navigation through an environment via landmark association without needing GPS?

Alexander Jones, Andrew Rush, Cory Merkel, Eric Herrmann, Ajey P. Jacob, Clare Thiem, Rashmi Jha. A neuromorphic SLAM architecture using gated-memristive synapses. Neurocomputing, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.09.098.

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Navigation in GPS-denied environments is a critical challenge for autonomous mobile platforms

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