{"id":2872,"date":"2023-05-24T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:49:52","slug":"how-contextual-and-goal-information-are-incorporated-in-the-construction-and-execution-of-navigational-plans-in-the-human-hippocampus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2872","title":{"rendered":"How contextual and goal information are incorporated in the construction and execution of navigational plans in the human hippocampus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jordan Crivelli-Decker, Alex Clarke, Seongmin A. Park, Derek J. Huffman, Erie D. Boorman &amp; Charan Ranganath. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-35967-6\"><strong>Goal-oriented representations in the human hippocampus during planning and navigation<\/strong><\/a>. Nat Commun 14, 2946 (2023). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-35967-6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;Recent work in cognitive and systems neuroscience has suggested that <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the hippocampus might support planning, imagination, and navigation by forming cognitive maps<\/span><\/strong> that capture the abstract structure of physical spaces, tasks, and situations. Navigation involves disambiguating similar contexts, and the planning and execution of a sequence of decisions to reach a goal. Here, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">we examine hippocampal activity patterns in humans during a goal-directed navigation task to investigate how contextual and goal information are incorporated in the construction and execution of navigational plans<\/span><\/strong>. During <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">planning<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">hippocampal pattern similarity is enhanced across routes that share a context and a goal<\/span><\/strong>. During <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">navigation<\/span><\/strong>, we observe <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">prospective activation in the hippocampus that reflects the retrieval of pattern information related to a key-decision point<\/span><\/strong>. These results suggest that, rather than simply representing overlapping associations or state transitions, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">hippocampal activity patterns are shaped by context and goals<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jordan Crivelli-Decker, Alex Clarke, Seongmin A. Park, Derek J. Huffman, Erie D. Boorman &amp; Charan Ranganath. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-35967-6\"><strong>Goal-oriented representations in the human hippocampus during planning and navigation<\/strong><\/a>. Nat Commun 14, 2946 (2023). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-35967-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Crivelli-Decker, Alex Clarke, Seongmin A. Park, Derek J. Huffman, Erie D. Boorman &amp; Charan Ranganath. Goal-oriented representations in the human hippocampus during planning and navigation. Nat Commun 14, 2946 (2023). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-35967-6 Abstract &#8220;Recent work in cognitive and systems neuroscience has suggested that the hippocampus might support planning, imagination, and navigation by forming cognitive maps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[987,96,960,346],"tags":[1245,349,85,1246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872"}],"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=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}