{"id":2251,"date":"2020-02-21T19:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T09:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2020-02-21T19:57:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T09:57:06","slug":"how-do-spatial-maps-work-in-olfactory-cortex-during-olfactory-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"How do spatial maps work in olfactory cortex during olfactory navigation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cindy Poo, Gautam Agarwal, Niccol\u00f2 Bonacchi, Zachary Mainen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.02.18.935494v1\"><strong>Spatial maps in olfactory cortex during olfactory navigation<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<br \/>\nbioRxiv 2020.02.18.935494; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.18.935494<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Animals rely on chemical signals to forage for food, shelter, and mates. Such behaviors call for odor cues to be linked to locations within their environment<\/span><\/strong>. Nonetheless, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">where and how this happens in the brain is not known<\/span><\/strong>. Here, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">we show that spatial and olfactory information converge in posterior piriform cortex (pPCx), an olfactory region with strong associative circuity.<\/span><\/strong> Ensembles of pPCx neurons recorded in rats performing an odor-cued spatial navigation task were robustly selective for both odor identity and spatial location, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">forming an \u201codor-place map\u201d.<\/span><\/strong> Spatially-selective pPCx neurons displayed joint selectivity for odors, stability across behavioral contexts and functional coupling to the hippocampal theta rhythm. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">These results implicate the pPCx as a strong candidate region to associate spatial and olfactory information in support of navigational behavior<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cindy Poo, Gautam Agarwal, Niccol\u00f2 Bonacchi, Zachary Mainen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.02.18.935494v1\"><strong>Spatial maps in olfactory cortex during olfactory navigation<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<br \/>\nbioRxiv 2020.02.18.935494; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.18.935494<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Poo, Gautam Agarwal, Niccol\u00f2 Bonacchi, Zachary Mainen. Spatial maps in olfactory cortex during olfactory navigation.\u00a0 bioRxiv 2020.02.18.935494; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.18.935494 Abstract &#8220;Animals rely on chemical signals to forage for food, shelter, and mates. Such behaviors call for odor cues to be linked to locations within their environment. Nonetheless, where and how this happens in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,519],"tags":[782,781,466,780],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251"}],"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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}