{"id":3236,"date":"2025-09-14T19:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2025-09-14T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:33:19","slug":"how-visual-objects-refine-head-direction-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=3236","title":{"rendered":"How visual objects refine head direction coding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dominique Siegenthaler, Henry Denny, Sof\u00eda Skromne Carrasco, Johanna Luise Mayer, Daniel Levenstein,Adrien Peyrache, Stuart Trenholm, \u00c9milie Mac\u00e9. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/epdf\/10.1126\/science.adu9828\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Visual objects refine head direction coding<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Science, 389,eadu9828(2025).DOI:10.1126\/science.adu9828<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Animals use visual objects to guide navigation-related behaviors<\/span><\/strong>. However, visual object\u2013preferring areas have yet to be described in the mouse brain, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">limiting our understanding of how visual objects affect spatial navigation system processing<\/span><\/strong>. Using functional ultrasound imaging, we identified brain areas that were preferentially activated by images of objects compared with their scrambled versions. Whereas visual cortex did not show a preference, areas associated with spatial navigation were preferentially activated by visual objects. Electrophysiological recordings in postsubiculum, the cortical head direction (HD) system hub, confirmed<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> a preference for visual objects in both HD cells and fast-spiking interneurons<\/span><\/strong>. In freely moving animals, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">visual objects increased firing rates of HD cells aligned with a visual object but decreased activity in HD cells coding for other directions<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dominique Siegenthaler, Henry Denny, Sof\u00eda Skromne Carrasco, Johanna Luise Mayer, Daniel Levenstein,Adrien Peyrache, Stuart Trenholm, \u00c9milie Mac\u00e9. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/epdf\/10.1126\/science.adu9828\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Visual objects refine head direction coding<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Science, 389,eadu9828(2025).DOI:10.1126\/science.adu9828<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominique Siegenthaler, Henry Denny, Sof\u00eda Skromne Carrasco, Johanna Luise Mayer, Daniel Levenstein,Adrien Peyrache, Stuart Trenholm, \u00c9milie Mac\u00e9. Visual objects refine head direction coding. Science, 389,eadu9828(2025).DOI:10.1126\/science.adu9828 Abstract &#8220;Animals use visual objects to guide navigation-related behaviors. However, visual object\u2013preferring areas have yet to be described in the mouse brain, limiting our understanding of how visual objects affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,419,820],"tags":[1365,806],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236"}],"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=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}