{"id":2899,"date":"2023-07-21T19:16:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T09:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2023-07-21T19:16:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T09:16:50","slug":"how-do-neural-networks-work-for-navigation-from-connections-to-computations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2899","title":{"rendered":"How Do Neural Networks Work for Navigation: From Connections to Computations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rachel I. Wilson. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annualreviews.org\/doi\/10.1146\/annurev-neuro-110920-032645\"><strong>Neural Networks for Navigation: From Connections to Computations<\/strong><\/a>. Annual Review of Neuroscience Vol. 46:403-423 (Volume publication date July 2023) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-neuro-110920-032645<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Many animals can navigate toward a goal they cannot see based on an internal representation of that goal in the brain&#8217;s spatial maps<\/strong><\/span>. These maps are organized around networks with stable fixed-point dynamics (attractors), anchored to landmarks, and reciprocally connected to motor control. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This review summarizes recent progress in understanding these networks, focusing on studies in arthropods<\/span><\/strong>. One factor driving recent progress is the availability of the Drosophila connectome; however, it is increasingly clear that navigation depends on ongoing synaptic plasticity in these networks. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Functional synapses appear to be continually reselected from the set of anatomical potential synapses based on the interaction of Hebbian learning rules, sensory feedback, attractor dynamics, and neuromodulation<\/span><\/strong>. This can explain <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">how the brain&#8217;s maps of space are rapidly updated<\/span><\/strong>; it may also explain <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">how the brain can initialize goals as stable fixed points for navigation<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rachel I. Wilson. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annualreviews.org\/doi\/10.1146\/annurev-neuro-110920-032645\"><strong>Neural Networks for Navigation: From Connections to Computations<\/strong><\/a>. Annual Review of Neuroscience Vol. 46:403-423 (Volume publication date July 2023) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-neuro-110920-032645<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel I. Wilson. Neural Networks for Navigation: From Connections to Computations. Annual Review of Neuroscience Vol. 46:403-423 (Volume publication date July 2023) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-neuro-110920-032645 Abstract &#8220;Many animals can navigate toward a goal they cannot see based on an internal representation of that goal in the brain&#8217;s spatial maps. These maps are organized around networks with stable [&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],"tags":[1268,1267,85,1266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899"}],"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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}