{"id":2299,"date":"2020-08-07T10:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T00:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2020-08-07T10:34:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T00:34:51","slug":"how-is-vectorial-information-encoded-in-spatial-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"How is vectorial information encoded in spatial cognition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bicanski, A., Burgess, N. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41583-020-0336-9\"><strong>Neuronal vector coding in spatial cognition<\/strong><\/a>. Nat Rev Neurosci (2020). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41583-020-0336-9<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Several types of neurons involved in spatial navigation and memory encode the distance and direction (that is, the vector) between an agent and items in its environment<\/span><\/strong>. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Such vectorial information provides a powerful basis for spatial cognition by representing the geometric relationships between the self and the external world<\/span><\/strong>. Here, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">we review the explicit encoding of vectorial information by neurons in and around the hippocampal formation, far from the sensory periphery<\/span><\/strong>. The parahippocampal, retrosplenial and parietal cortices, as well as the hippocampal formation and striatum, provide a plethora of examples of vector coding at the single neuron level. We provide a functional taxonomy of cells with vectorial receptive fields as reported in experiments and proposed in theoretical work. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The responses of these neurons may provide the fundamental neural basis for the (bottom-up) representation of environmental layout and (top-down) memory-guided generation of visuospatial imagery and navigational planning<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bicanski, A., Burgess, N. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41583-020-0336-9\"><strong>Neuronal vector coding in spatial cognition<\/strong><\/a>. Nat Rev Neurosci (2020). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41583-020-0336-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bicanski, A., Burgess, N. Neuronal vector coding in spatial cognition. Nat Rev Neurosci (2020). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41583-020-0336-9 Abstract &#8220;Several types of neurons involved in spatial navigation and memory encode the distance and direction (that is, the vector) between an agent and items in its environment. Such vectorial information provides a powerful basis for spatial cognition by representing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,419,519],"tags":[813,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299"}],"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=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}