Category: Neural Basis of Navigation
How does the brain encode angular and linear velocity?
Davide Spalla, Alessandro Treves, Charlotte N. Boccara. Angular and Linear Speed Cells in the Parahippocampal Circuits. bioRxiv 2021.01.28.428631; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.28.428631
Abstract
“An essential role of the hippocampal region is to integrate information to compute and update representations. …
How does the brain represent the location of oneself and others in shared environments?
Stangl, M., Topalovic, U., Inman, C.S. et al. Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03073-y
Abstract
“Everyday tasks in social settings require humans to encode neural representations of not only their own spatial …
How to implement sensory processing, learning, and motor control using a biologically spiking neural network model of the flying insect mushroom body?
Hannes Rapp, Martin Paul Nawrot. A spiking neural program for sensorimotor control during foraging in flying insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 2020, 117 (45) 28412-28421; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009821117
Significance
“Living organisms demonstrate remarkable abilities in …
How does the brain integrate self-motion and goals adaptively?
Andrew S. Alexander, Janet C. Tung, G. William Chapman, Laura E. Shelley, Michael E. Hasselmo, Douglas A. Nitz. Adaptive integration of self-motion and goals in posterior parietal cortex. bioRxiv 2020.12.19.423589; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.19.423589
Abstract
“Animals engage in a variety …
How does the monkey brain represent what and when conjunctively during anassociative memory task?
Cruzado NA, Tiganj Z, Brincat SL, Miller EK, Howard MW. Conjunctive representation of what and when in monkey hippocampus and lateral prefrontal cortex during an associative memory task. Hippocampus. 2020 Dec;30(12):1332-1346. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23282.
Abstract
“Adaptive memory requires the …
How to build a fully automated bat flight environment for studying 3D navigation in flying bats?
Genzel D, Yartsev MM. The fully automated bat (FAB) flight room: A human-free environment for studying navigation in flying bats and its initial application to the retrosplenial cortex. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2020 Oct:108970. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2020.108970.
“Background
Bats can …
How do entorhinal grid cells represent volumetric (three-dimensional) space?
Roddy M. Grieves, Selim Jedidi-Ayoub, Karyna Mishchanchuk, Anyi Liu, Sophie Renaudineau, Éléonore Duvelle, Kate J. Jeffery. Grid cell firing fields in a volumetric space. bioRxiv 2020.12.06.413542; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.06.413542
Abstract
“We investigated how entorhinal grid cells represent volumetric (three-dimensional) space…
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