{"id":2488,"date":"2021-10-26T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2021-10-26T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T03:40:08","slug":"how-does-the-hippocampus-of-flying-owls-encode-3d-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2488","title":{"rendered":"How does the hippocampus of flying owls encode 3D space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arpit Agarwal, Ayelet Sarel, Dori Derdikman, Nachum Ulanovsky, Yoram Gutfreund. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.10.24.465553v1\"><strong>Spatial coding in the hippocampus of flying owls<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0bioRxiv 2021.10.24.465553; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.10.24.465553<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;The elucidation of spatial coding in the hippocampus requires exploring diverse animal species. While robust place-cells are found in the mammalian hippocampus, much less is known about spatial coding in the hippocampus of birds &#8211; and nothing is known about avian spatial representation during flight. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Here we used a wireless-electrophysiology system to record single neurons in the hippocampus and related pallial structures from freely flying barn owls (Tyto alba) &#8211; a central-place nocturnal predator species with excellent navigational abilities<\/span><\/strong>. The owl 3D position was monitored while it flew back and forth between two perches. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We found place cells &#8211; neurons that robustly represented the owls location during flight, and its flight-direction &#8211; as well as neurons that coded the owls perching position between flights<\/span><\/strong>. Spatial coding was invariant to changes in lighting conditions and to the position of a salient object in the room. Place cells were found in the anterior hippocampus and in the adjacent posterior hyperpallium apicale, and to a much lesser extent in the visual Wulst (visual-cortex homologue). <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The finding of place-cells in flying owls suggests commonalities in spatial coding across a variety of species &#8211; including rodents, bats and owls<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arpit Agarwal, Ayelet Sarel, Dori Derdikman, Nachum Ulanovsky, Yoram Gutfreund. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.10.24.465553v1\"><strong>Spatial coding in the hippocampus of flying owls<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0bioRxiv 2021.10.24.465553; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.10.24.465553<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arpit Agarwal, Ayelet Sarel, Dori Derdikman, Nachum Ulanovsky, Yoram Gutfreund. Spatial coding in the hippocampus of flying owls.\u00a0bioRxiv 2021.10.24.465553; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.10.24.465553 Abstract &#8220;The elucidation of spatial coding in the hippocampus requires exploring diverse animal species. While robust place-cells are found in the mammalian hippocampus, much less is known about spatial coding in the hippocampus of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,389,96,346],"tags":[158,157,428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488"}],"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=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}