Tag: Self-Motion

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

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How causal inference is performed in attributing retinal motion to self- and object-motion during closed-loop goal-directed navigation?

Jean-Paul Noel, Johannes Bill, Haoran Ding, John Vastola, Gregory C DeAngelis, Dora Angelaki, Jan Drugowitsch. Causal inference during closed-loop navigation: parsing of self- and object-motion. bioRxiv 2023.01.27.525974; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.27.525974

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A key computation in building adaptive internal models

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Whether place cells encode the angular and linear position as well as motion direction of a simple stimulus, regardless of self-motion, memory or reward?

Chinmay S. Purandare, Shonali Dhingra, Rodrigo Rios, Cliff Vuong, Thuc To, Ayaka Hachisuka, Krishna Choudhary & Mayank R. Mehta. Moving bar of light evokes vectorial spatial selectivity in the immobile rat hippocampus. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04404-x

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“Visual cortical neurons …

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Whether and how the 3D position and velocity of the head and eyes are represented in the rodent MEC neural circuitry supporting navigation?

Caitlin S. Mallory, Kiah Hardcastle, Malcolm G. Campbell, Alexander Attinger, Isabel I. C. Low, Jennifer L. Raymond & Lisa M. Giocomo. Mouse entorhinal cortex encodes a diverse repertoire of self-motion signals. Nat Commun 12, 671 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-20936-8

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“Neural …

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How does the brain integrate self-motion and goals adaptively?

Andrew S. Alexander, Janet C. Tung, G. William Chapman, Laura E. Shelley, Michael E. Hasselmo, Douglas A. Nitz. Adaptive integration of self-motion and goals in posterior parietal cortexbioRxiv 2020.12.19.423589; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.19.423589

Abstract
Animals engage in a variety

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How does the brain encode head motion?

Jean Laurens, Dora E. Angelaki. Simple spike dynamics of Purkinje cells in the macaque vestibulo-cerebellum during passive whole-body self-motion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2020, 201915873; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915873117

Significance
This study characterizes the response dynamics

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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 …

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