Tag: Grid Cells
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.
Abstract
“The activity patterns of grid cells form distinctively regular triangular lattices over the explored spatial environment and are …
How grid cells perform path integration in multiple reference frames during self-motion-based navigation?
Jing-Jie Peng, Beate Throm, Maryam Najafian Jazi, Ting-Yun Yen, Hannah Monyer, Kevin Allen. Grid cells perform path integration in multiple reference frames during self-motion-based navigation. bioRxiv 2023.12.21.572857; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.21.572857
Abstract
“With their periodic firing pattern, grid cells are considered …
How the activity of single grid cells is related to the sum activity of a population of grid cells?
Ikhwan Bin Khalid, Eric T. Reifenstein, Naomi Auer, Lukas Kunz, Richard Kempter. Quantitative modeling of the emergence of macroscopic grid-like representations. bioRxiv 2022.12.20.521210; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.20.521210
Abstract
“Grid cells are neurons in the entorhinal cortex that play a key …
When and why grid cells appear or not in trained path integrators?
Ben Sorscher, Gabriel C Mel, Aran Nayebi, Lisa Giocomo, Daniel Yamins, Surya Ganguli. When and why grid cells appear or not in trained path integrators. bioRxiv 2022.11.14.516537; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.14.516537
Abstract
“Recent work has claimed that the emergence of grid …
Whether grid-cell-like representations support temporal processing?
Gregory Peters-Founshtein, Amnon Dafni-Merom, Rotem Monsa, Shahar Arzy. Evidence for grid-cell-related activity in the time domain. bioRxiv 2022.06.14.476894; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.14.476894
Abstract
“The relation between the processing of space and time in the brain has been an enduring cross-disciplinary question. …
How do grid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity is dissociated from external sensory cues?
Torgeir Waaga, Haggai Agmon, Valentin A. Normand, Anne Nagelhus, Richard J. Gardner, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser, Yoram Burak. Grid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity is dissociated from external sensory cues, Neuron, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.03.011.
Summary
“The representation …
Whether grid cell networks show continuous attractor dynamics, and how they interface with inputs from the environment?
Richard J. Gardner, Erik Hermansen, Marius Pachitariu, Yoram Burak, Nils A. Baas, Benjamin A. Dunn, May-Britt Moser & Edvard I. Moser. Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04268-7
Abstract
“The medial entorhinal cortex is part …
How Do We Find Our Way?
Moser M (2021) How Do We Find Our Way? Grid Cells in the Brain. Front. Young Minds. 9:678725. doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.678725
ABSTRACT
“Navigation in the environment, getting from one place to another, is one of the most fundamental and …
Whether grid cell networks show continuous attractor dynamics and how they interface with inputs from the environment?
Richard J. Gardner, Erik Hermansen, Marius Pachitariu, Yoram Burak, Nils A. Baas, Benjamin A. Dunn, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser. Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells. bioRxiv 2021.02.25.432776; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.25.432776
Abstract
“The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) is …
How does the brain navigate 2D semantic spaces?
Simone Viganò, Valerio Rubino, Antonio Di Soccio, Marco Buiatti, Manuela Piazza. Multiple spatial codes for navigating 2-D semantic spaces. bioRxiv 2020.07.16.205955; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.16.205955
Summary
“When mammals navigate in the physical environment, specific neurons such as grid-cells, head-direction cells, …
How to learn an efficient place cell map from grid cells using non-negative sparse coding?
Yanbo Lian, Anthony N. Burkitt. Learning an efficient place cell map from grid cells using non-negative sparse coding. bioRxiv 2020.08.12.248534; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.12.248534
Abstract
“Experimental studies of grid cells in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex (MEC) have shown that they are …
How are grid cells modulated by local head direction?
Gerlei, K., Passlack, J., Hawes, I. et al. Grid cells are modulated by local head direction. Nat Commun 11, 4228 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17500-1
Abstract
“Grid and head direction codes represent cognitive spaces for navigation and memory. Pure grid …
How do place cells and grid cells represent position across multiple environments with joint attractor dynamics?
Agmon, Haggai, and Yoram Burak. “A theory of joint attractor dynamics in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex accounts for artificial remapping and grid cell field-to-field variability.” eLife 9 (2020): e56894.
Abstract
“The representation of position in …
How can navigation in cluttered environments be supported by utilizing a combination of grid cell-driven vector navigation, place cell-driven topological navigation, and border cell-driven local obstacle avoidance?
Edvardsen, V, Bicanski, A, Burgess, N. Navigating with grid and place cells in cluttered environments. Hippocampus. 2020; 30: 220– 232. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23147
Abstract
“Hippocampal formation contains several classes of neurons thought to be involved in navigational processes, in particular place …
How do grid cells encode local head direction?
Klara Gerlei, Jessica Passlack, Ian Hawes, Brianna Vandrey, Holly Stevens, Ioannis Papastathopoulos, Matthew F. Nolan. Grid cells encode local head direction. bioRxiv 681312; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/681312
Abstract
“Grid and head direction codes represent cognitive spaces for navigation and memory…
How does the brain process the scale from a computational perspective?
Nicolai Waniek. Transition Scale-Spaces: A Computational Theory for the Discretized Entorhinal Cortex. Neural Computation 2020 32:2, 330-394
Abstract
“Although hippocampal grid cells are thought to be crucial for spatial navigation, their computational purpose remains disputed. Recently, they were proposed …
Whether speed and head direction signals provide invariant self-motion signals across environments or change their coding in response to metric changes to the environment
Munn, Robert GK, Caitlin S. Mallory, Kiah Hardcastle, Dane M. Chetkovich, and Lisa M. Giocomo. Entorhinal velocity signals reflect environmental geometry. Nat Neurosci (2020) doi:10.1038/s41593-019-0562-5
Abstract
“The entorhinal cortex contains neurons that represent self-location, including grid cells that fire …
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. eLife 2019;8:e47147 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.47147
Abstract “The grid cell network in the medial …
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
Abstract
The grid cell network in the MEC …
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 Does the Brain Solve the Computational Problems of Spatial Navigation?
Widloski, John, and Ila Fiete. “How does the brain solve the computational problems of spatial navigation?.” In Space, Time and Memory in the Hippocampal Formation, pp. 373-407. Springer, Vienna, 2014.
Abstract
Flexible navigation in the real world involves …
How are grid cells organized in the MEC?
Gu, Yi, Sam Lewallen, Amina A. Kinkhabwala, Cristina Domnisoru, Kijung Yoon, Jeffrey L. Gauthier, Ila R. Fiete, and David W. Tank. “A map-like micro-organization of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex.” Cell 175, no. 3 (2018): 736-750.…
Whether entorhinal velocity signals are equally influenced or provide a universal metric for self-motion across environments?
Robert G K Munn, Caitlin S Mallory, Kiah Hardcastle, Dane M Chetkovich, Lisa M Giocomo. Entorhinal velocity signals reflect environmental geometry. bioRxiv 671222; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/671222
Summary
The entorhinal cortex contains neural signals for representing self-location, including grid cells that …
How the sensory environmental information and the self-motion information influence on place and grid cell firing?
Chen, Guifen, Yi Lu, John A. King, Francesca Cacucci, and Neil Burgess. “Differential influences of environment and self-motion on place and grid cell firing.” Nature communications 10, no. 1 (2019): 630.
Abstract
Place and grid cells in the hippocampal formation …
Whether humans can navigate a sensory space informed only by odor cues and how the brain might internalize a representation of two-dimensional olfactory space
Xiaojun Bao, Eva Gjorgieva, Laura K. Shanahan, James D. Howard, Thorsten Kahnt, and Jay A. Gottfried. Grid-like Neural Representations Support Olfactory Navigation of a Two-Dimensional Odor Space. Neuron(2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.03.034
Grid cells in entorhinal cortex underlie spatial orientation and path …
How to build goal-directed navigation based on path integration and decoding of grid cells in an artificial neural network？
Edvardsen, Vegard. “Goal-directed navigation based on path integration and decoding of grid cells in an artificial neural network.” Natural Computing 18, no. 1 (2019): 13-27.
The following content is extracted from Edvardsen 2019.
Edvardsen, Vegard. “Goal-directed navigation based …
How to implement long-range navigation by path integration and decoding of grid cells in a neural network?
Edvardsen, Vegard. “Long-range navigation by path integration and decoding of grid cells in a neural network.” In 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 4348-4355. IEEE, 2017.
The following content is extracted from Edvardsen 2017.
Neural …
How grid cells generate unambiguous and high-capacity representations of variables in much higher-dimensional space?
Klukas, Mirko, Marcus Lewis, and Ila Fiete. “Flexible representation and memory of higher-dimensional cognitive variables with grid cells.” bioRxiv (2019): 578641.
The following content is from Klukas 2019.
Grid cell representations are simultaneously flexible and powerful yet rigid …
How grid cells could possibly organize?
Anselmi, Fabio, Benedetta Franceschiello, Micah M. Murray, and Lorenzo Rosasco. “A computational model for grid maps in neural populations.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06553 (2019).
The following content is extracted from Anselmi 2019.
Anselmi, Fabio, Benedetta Franceschiello, Micah M. Murray, …
How the brain implements recognition of familiar faces, objects, and scenes at the neural level?
Bicanski and Burgess 2019 propose that grid cells support visual recognition memory, by encoding translation vectors between salient stimulus features. They provide an explicit neural mechanism for the role of directed saccades in hypothesis-driven, constructive perception and recognition, and …
DeepMind GridCells Code
The DeepMind opens the code of grid cells (Banino et al 2018) via GitHub(https://github.com/deepmind/grid-cells) in Jan. 2019. This package provides an implementation of the supervised learning experiments in Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents, as published …
How does the brain’s spatial map change when we change the shape of the room?
A latest report about grid cells from Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL. The following is excerpted from the report.
Our ability to navigate the world, and form episodic memories, relies on an accurate representation of the environment around us. …
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was awarded to John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.”
A summary report of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 on the www.nobelprize.org
The following content is excerpted from the reference -The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Thu. 10 Jan 2019. …
Why is it a so difficult problem for navigating in a three-dimensional world?
The excerpt note is about spatial cognition in non-horizontal environments by Jeffery K. J. et al., 2013.
Jeffery, Kathryn J., Aleksandar Jovalekic, Madeleine Verriotis, and Robin Hayman. “Navigating in a three-dimensional world.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36, no. …
iNav 2018: How does the brain know where it is, where it is going, and how to get from one place to another?
The 2nd Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium (iNav 2018) was held in June 2018 in Québec, Canada, organized by Jeffery Taube, Thomas Wolbers, Kate Jeffery, Laure Rondi-Reig, David Dickman, Mayank Mehta. The meeting aims to bring together a diverse group of scientists …
Long-distance Navigation and magnetoreception in migratory animals
The excerpt note is about twenty important mechanistic questions related to long-distance animal navigation from Mouritsen, H. (2018).
Mouritsen, H. (2018). Long-distance navigation and magnetoreception in migratory animals. Nature, 558(7708), 50.
Abstract: For centuries, humans have been fascinated by …
How to enable robot cognitive mapping inspired by Grid Cells, Head Direction Cells and Speed Cells？
Taiping Zeng, and Bailu Si. “Cognitive Mapping Based on Conjunctive Representations of Space and Movement.” Frontiers in Neurorobotics 11 (2017).
In this work, the researchers developed a cognitive mapping model for mobile robots, taking advantage of the coding …
Brief News of Cognitive Navigation (2018-001)
1. Hexadirectional coding of visual space in human entorhinal cortex
by Matthias Nau, Tobias Navarro Schröder, Jacob L. S. Bellmund & Christian F. Doeller in DoellerLab, January 8, 2018
- Entorhinal grid cells map the local environment, but their involvement
The story of how the Mosers discovered Grid Cells
Discovering grid cells
From the Mosers' website
This is the story of how the Mosers discovered Grid Cells, as told by themselves.
We both grew up on remote islands off the west coast of Norway, a couple of hundred miles
…Brain-inspired navigation in robots
Brain-inspired navigation in robots
Source: http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/182985_en.html © European Union, 2016
Could the human brain inspire a new generation of robots able to navigate in complex and unpredictable environments? The GRIDMAP project is trying to unravel its mysteries and translate them …
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