{"id":2551,"date":"2022-01-29T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T07:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2022-01-29T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T07:26:45","slug":"how-visual-landmarks-are-integrated-into-a-framework-that-supports-the-neural-encoding-of-landmark-based-orientation%ef%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2551","title":{"rendered":"How visual landmarks are integrated into a framework that supports the neural encoding of landmark-based orientation\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Patrick A. LaChance, Jalina Graham, Benjamin L. Shapiro, Ashlyn J. Morris, Jeffrey S. Taube.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.abg8404\"><strong>Landmark-modulated directional coding in postrhinal cortex<\/strong><\/a>. SCIENCE ADVANCES,\u00a028 Jan 2022, Vol\u00a08,\u00a0Issue\u00a04.\u00a0 DOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.abg8404<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n\u201c<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Visual landmarks can anchor an animal\u2019s internal sense of orientation to the external world<\/span><\/strong>. The rodent postrhinal cortex (POR) may facilitate this processing. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Here, we demonstrate that, in contrast to classic head direction (HD) cells, which have a single preferred orientation, POR HD cells develop a second preferred orientation when an established landmark cue is duplicated along another environmental wall.<\/span><\/strong> We therefore refer to these cells as <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">landmark-modulated\u2013HD (LM-HD) cells<\/span><\/strong>. LM-HD cells discriminate between landmarks in familiar and novel locations, discriminate between visually disparate landmarks, and continue to respond to the previous location of a familiar landmark following its removal. Rats initially exposed to different stable landmark configurations show LM-HD tuning that may reflect the integration of visual landmark information into an allocentric HD signal. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">These results provide insight into how visual landmarks are integrated into a framework that supports the neural encoding of landmark-based orientation<\/span><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Patrick A. LaChance, Jalina Graham, Benjamin L. Shapiro, Ashlyn J. Morris, Jeffrey S. Taube.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.abg8404\"><strong>Landmark-modulated directional coding in postrhinal cortex<\/strong><\/a>. SCIENCE ADVANCES,\u00a028 Jan 2022, Vol\u00a08,\u00a0Issue\u00a04.\u00a0 DOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.abg8404<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick A. LaChance, Jalina Graham, Benjamin L. Shapiro, Ashlyn J. Morris, Jeffrey S. Taube.\u00a0Landmark-modulated directional coding in postrhinal cortex. SCIENCE ADVANCES,\u00a028 Jan 2022, Vol\u00a08,\u00a0Issue\u00a04.\u00a0 DOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.abg8404 Abstract \u201cVisual landmarks can anchor an animal\u2019s internal sense of orientation to the external world. The rodent postrhinal cortex (POR) may facilitate this processing. Here, we demonstrate that, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[972,391,974,973,559],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551"}],"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=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}