{"id":2459,"date":"2021-08-25T19:03:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T09:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2021-08-25T19:03:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T09:03:35","slug":"how-do-the-neurons-in-rat-retrosplenial-cortex-encode-environment-symmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"How do the neurons in rat retrosplenial cortex encode environment symmetry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ningyu Zhang, Roddy M Grieves, Kate J Jeffery. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.08.22.457261v1\"><strong>Environment symmetry drives a multidirectional code in rat retrosplenial cortex<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0bioRxiv 2021.08.22.457261; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.08.22.457261<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A class of neurons showing bidirectional tuning in a two-compartment environment<\/span><\/strong> was recently discovered in dysgranular retrosplenial cortex (dRSC). <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We investigated here whether these neurons possess a more general environmental symmetry-encoding property, potentially useful in representing complex spatial structure.<\/span><\/strong> We report that <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">directional tuning of dRSC neurons reflected environment symmetry in onefold, twofold and fourfold-symmetric environments<\/span><\/strong>: this was the case not just globally, but also locally within each sub-compartment. Thus, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">these cells use environmental cues to organize multiple directional tuning curves, which perhaps sometimes combine via interaction with classic head direction cells.<\/span><\/strong> A consequence is that<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> both local and global environmental symmetry are simultaneously encoded even within local sub-compartments<\/span><\/strong>, which may be important for cognitive mapping of the space beyond immediate perceptual reach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ningyu Zhang, Roddy M Grieves, Kate J Jeffery. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.08.22.457261v1\"><strong>Environment symmetry drives a multidirectional code in rat retrosplenial cortex<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0bioRxiv 2021.08.22.457261; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.08.22.457261<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ningyu Zhang, Roddy M Grieves, Kate J Jeffery. Environment symmetry drives a multidirectional code in rat retrosplenial cortex.\u00a0bioRxiv 2021.08.22.457261; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.08.22.457261 Abstract &#8220;A class of neurons showing bidirectional tuning in a two-compartment environment was recently discovered in dysgranular retrosplenial cortex (dRSC). We investigated here whether these neurons possess a more general environmental symmetry-encoding property, potentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,346,519],"tags":[919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459"}],"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=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}