{"id":2103,"date":"2019-12-02T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2019-12-02T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:28:59","slug":"how-the-brain-performs-egocentric-to-allocentric-transformations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"How the brain performs egocentric-to-allocentric transformations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cheng Wang, Xiaojing Chen, James J Knierim. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0959438819301035\"><strong>Egocentric and allocentric representations of space in the rodent brain<\/strong><\/a>, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 60, 2020, Pages 12-20,https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.conb.2019.11.005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Spatial signals are prevalent within the hippocampus and its neighboring regions. It is generally accepted that<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> these signals are defined with respect to the external world (i.e., a world-centered, or allocentric, frame of reference)<\/strong><\/span>. Recently, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">evidence of egocentric processing (i.e., self-centered, defined relative to the subject) in the extended hippocampal system has accumulate<\/span><\/strong>d. These results support the idea that egocentric sensory information, derived from primary sensory cortical areas, may be transformed to allocentric representations that interact with the allocentric hippocampal system. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We propose a framework to explain the implications of the egocentric-allocentric transformations<\/span> <\/strong>to the functions of the medial temporal lobe memory system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cheng Wang, Xiaojing Chen, James J Knierim. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0959438819301035\"><strong>Egocentric and allocentric representations of space in the rodent brain<\/strong><\/a>, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 60, 2020, Pages 12-20,https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.conb.2019.11.005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheng Wang, Xiaojing Chen, James J Knierim. Egocentric and allocentric representations of space in the rodent brain, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 60, 2020, Pages 12-20,https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.conb.2019.11.005. Abstract: &#8220;Spatial signals are prevalent within the hippocampus and its neighboring regions. It is generally accepted that these signals are defined with respect to the external world (i.e., a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,346,419],"tags":[564,589,597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}