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How does the human brain represent boundary and goal direction information?

Shine, Jonathan, Jose Pedro Valdes-Herrera, Claus Tempelmann, and Thomas Wolbers. “Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculum.” Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 4004 (2019)

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“In rodents, cells in …

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Whether the firing associations of grid cells depend on hippocampal inputs?

Noam Almog, Gilad Tocker, Tora Bonnevie, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser, Dori Derdikman. During hippocampal inactivation, grid cells maintain their synchrony, even when the grid pattern is lost. bioRxiv 592006; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/592006

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The grid cell network in the MEC …

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How velocity coupling of grid modules enables stable embedding of a low dimensional variable in a high dimensional attractor

Noga Mosheiff, Yoram Burak. Velocity coupling of grid modules enables stable embedding of a low dimensional variable in a high dimensional attractor. eLife 2019;8:e48494 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.48494

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Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) encode position using a …

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How olfactory landmarks and path integration converge to form a cognitive spatial map?

Walter M Fischler, Narendra Joshi, Virginia Devi-Chou, Lacey Kitch, Mark Schnitzer, Larry F Abbott, Richard Axel. Olfactory Landmarks and Path Integration Converge to Form a Cognitive Spatial Map. bioRxiv 752360; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/752360

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“The convergence of internal path …

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How does place cell network pattern develop with experience?

Soyoun Kim, Dajung Jung, Sebastien Royer. Place cell map genesis via competitive learning and conjunctive coding in the dentate gyrus. bioRxiv 748640;  doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/748640

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“Place cells exhibit spatially selective firing fields and collectively map the …

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How do neurons encode long-term memories?

Gonzalez, Walter G., Hanwen Zhang, Anna Harutyunyan, and Carlos Lois. “Persistence of neuronal representations through time and damage in the hippocampus.” Science 23 Aug 2019:Vol. 365, Issue 6455, pp. 821-825 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav9199

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“How do neurons encode …

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

Chen, Xiaoli, Paula Vieweg, and Thomas Wolbers. “Computing distance information from landmarks and self-motion cues-Differential contributions of anterior-lateral vs. posterior-medial entorhinal cortex in humans.” NeuroImage (2019): 116074.

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“Landmarks and path integration cues are two important sources …

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