How egocentric coding properties arise from its presynaptic inputs, and how egocentric cells represent items across different behavioral contexts?

Cheng, Ning, Qiqi Dong, Zhen Zhang, Li Wang, Xiaojing Chen, and Cheng Wang. “Egocentric processing of items in spines, dendrites, and somas in the retrosplenial cortex.” Neuron (2023).

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“Egocentric representations of external items are essential for spatial …

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How the medial entorhinal cortex develops during learning and influences memory?

Malone, T.J., Tien, NW., Ma, Y. et al. A consistent map in the medial entorhinal cortex supports spatial memoryNat Commun 15, 1457 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45853-4

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The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) is hypothesized to function as a

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How place cells use environmental cues to resolve the ambiguity of arotationally symmetric environment?

Cheng, Han Yin, Dorothy W. Overington, and Kate J. Jeffery. “A configural context signal simultaneously but separably drives positioning and orientation of hippocampal place fields.” Hippocampus 34.2 (2024): 73-87.

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Effective self-localization requires that the brain can

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Whether associative memory involves temporally correlated spiking of medial temporal lobe (MTL) neurons that exhibit stimulus-specific tuning?

Kunz, L., Staresina, B.P., Reinacher, P.C. et al. Ripple-locked coactivity of stimulus-specific neurons and human associative memory. Nat Neurosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01550-x

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“Associative memory enables the encoding and retrieval of relations between different stimuli. To better understand its neural …

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How to convert an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal?

Mussells Pires, P., Zhang, L., Parache, V. et al. Converting an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-07006-3

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“Neuronal signals that are relevant for spatial navigation have been described in many species1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. However, a circuit-level

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Whether the entorhinal cortex integrates relational information about changing values during prospective decision making using a grid-like representation of an abstract value space?

Nitsch, A., Garvert, M.M., Bellmund, J.L.S. et al. Grid-like entorhinal representation of an abstract value space during prospective decision makingNat Commun 15, 1198 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45127-z

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How valuable a choice option is often changes over time,

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How subfield-specific interneuron circuits govern the hippocampal response to novelty in male mice

Hainmueller, T., Cazala, A., Huang, LW. et al. Subfield-specific interneuron circuits govern the hippocampal response to novelty in male mice. Nat Commun 15, 714 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44882-3

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“The hippocampus is the brain’s center for episodic memories. Its subregions, the …

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