How Animals Map 3D Spaces?

For further info, please visit the report titled ‘How Animals Map 3D Spaces Surprises Brain Researchers‘ at Quanta Magazine…

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How does the human brain encode global and local head direction?

J. P. Shine, T. Wolbers. Global and Local Head Direction Coding in the Human Brain. bioRxiv 2021.10.11.463872; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.11.463872

Abstract
“Orientation-specific head direction (HD) cells increase their firing rate to indicate one’s facing direction in the environment. Rodent studies …

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How the macaque hippocampal formation represents 3D space?

Mao, Dun, Eric Avila, Baptiste Caziot, Jean Laurens, J. David Dickman, and Dora E. Angelaki. “Spatial modulation of hippocampal activity in freely moving macaques.” Neuron (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.09.032 

Summary
“The hippocampal formation is linked to spatial navigation, but …

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How hippocampal ensembles combine multimodal sensory cues?

Dustin Fetterhoff, Andrey Sobolev, Christian Leibold. Graded remapping of hippocampal ensembles under sensory conflicts. Cell Reports, Volume 36, Issue 11, 2021.

Summary
“Hippocampal place cells are thought to constitute a cognitive map of space derived from multimodal sensory …

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How Do We Find Our Way?

Moser M (2021) How Do We Find Our Way? Grid Cells in the Brain. Front. Young Minds. 9:678725. doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.678725

ABSTRACT
“Navigation in the environment, getting from one place to another, is one of the most fundamental and …

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What are the spatial and temporal scales of brain-wide neuronal activity, and how do activities at different scales interact?

Evan S Schaffer, Neeli Mishra, Matthew R Whiteway, Wenze Li, Michelle B Vancura, Jason Freedman, Kripa B Patel, Venkatakaushik Voleti, Liam Paninski, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, LF Abbott, Richard Axel. Flygenvectors: The spatial and temporal structure of neural activity across …

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How the time is encoded in rat dorsolateral striatum?

Alessandro Toso, Sebastian Reinartz, Francesca Pulecchi, Mathew E. Diamond. Time coding in rat dorsolateral striatum. Neuron, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.08.020.

Summary
“To assess the role of dorsolateral striatum (DLS) in time coding, we recorded neuronal activity in rats tasked with …

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