{"id":2278,"date":"2020-04-20T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T00:54:00","slug":"how-does-the-mouse-brain-encode-3d-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"How does the mouse brain encode 3D compass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dora E. Angelaki, Julia Ng, Amada M. Abrego, Henry X. Cham, Eftihia K. Asprodini, J. David Dickman &amp; Jean Laurens<i> .<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-020-15566-5\"><strong>A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<i>Nat Commun<\/i>\u00a0<b>11,\u00a0<\/b>1855 (2020). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-15566-5<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;Gravity sensing provides a robust verticality signal for three-dimensional navigation. Head direction cells in the mammalian limbic system implement an allocentric neuronal compass. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Here we show that head-direction cells in the rodent thalamus, retrosplenial cortex and cingulum fiber bundle are tuned to conjunctive combinations of azimuth and tilt, i.e. pitch or roll<\/span><\/strong>. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Pitch and roll orientation tuning is anchored to gravity and independent of visual landmarks<\/span><\/strong>. When the head tilts, azimuth tuning is affixed to the head-horizontal plane, but also uses gravity to remain anchored to the allocentric bearings in the earth-horizontal plane. Collectively, these results demonstrate that <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">a three-dimensional, gravity-based, neural compass is likely a ubiquitous property of mammalian species, including ground-dwelling animals<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dora E. Angelaki, Julia Ng, Amada M. Abrego, Henry X. Cham, Eftihia K. Asprodini, J. David Dickman &amp; Jean Laurens<i> .<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-020-15566-5\"><strong>A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<i>Nat Commun<\/i>\u00a0<b>11,\u00a0<\/b>1855 (2020). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-15566-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dora E. Angelaki, Julia Ng, Amada M. Abrego, Henry X. Cham, Eftihia K. Asprodini, J. David Dickman &amp; Jean Laurens .\u00a0A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain.\u00a0Nat Commun\u00a011,\u00a01855 (2020). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-15566-5 Abstract &#8220;Gravity sensing provides a robust verticality signal for three-dimensional navigation. Head direction cells in the mammalian limbic system implement an allocentric neuronal compass. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,389,96],"tags":[159,158,804],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278"}],"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=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}