{"id":2094,"date":"2019-11-20T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2019-11-20T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:29:10","slug":"how-path-integration-is-performed-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"How path integration is performed in the brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Savelli, Francesco, and James J. Knierim. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jeb.biologists.org\/content\/222\/Suppl_1\/jeb188912.abstract\"><strong>Origin and role of path integration in the cognitive representations of the hippocampus: computational insights into open questions<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0<i>Journal of Experimental Biology<\/i>\u00a0222, no. Suppl 1 (2019): jeb188912.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ABSTRACT<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Path integration is a straightforward concept with varied connotations that are important to different disciplines concerned with navigation, such as ethology, cognitive science, robotics and neuroscience<\/span><\/strong>. In studying the hippocampal formation, it is fruitful to think of path integration as a computation that transforms a sense of motion into a sense of location, continuously integrated with landmark perception. Here, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">we review experimental evidence that path integration is intimately involved in fundamental properties of place cells and other spatial cells that are thought to support a cognitive abstraction of space in this brain system<\/span><\/strong>. We discuss hypotheses about the anatomical and computational origin of path integration in the well-characterized circuits of the rodent limbic system. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We highlight how computational frameworks for map-building in robotics and cognitive science alike suggest an essential role for path integration in the creation of a new map in unfamiliar territory<\/span><\/strong>, and <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">how this very role can help us make sense of differences in neurophysiological data from novel versus familiar and small versus large environments<\/span><\/strong>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Similar computational principles could be at work when the hippocampus builds certain non-spatial representations, such as time intervals or trajectories defined in a sensory stimulus space<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Savelli, Francesco, and James J. Knierim. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jeb.biologists.org\/content\/222\/Suppl_1\/jeb188912.abstract\"><strong>Origin and role of path integration in the cognitive representations of the hippocampus: computational insights into open questions<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0<i>Journal of Experimental Biology<\/i>\u00a0222, no. Suppl 1 (2019): jeb188912.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savelli, Francesco, and James J. Knierim. &#8220;Origin and role of path integration in the cognitive representations of the hippocampus: computational insights into open questions.&#8221;\u00a0Journal of Experimental Biology\u00a0222, no. Suppl 1 (2019): jeb188912. 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