Category: Cognitive Navigation

How hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes?

Irina Barnaveli, Simone Viganò, Daniel Reznik, Patrick Haggard, Christian F. Doeller. Hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes. bioRxiv 2024.07.04.602119; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.04.602119

Efficiently interacting with the environment requires weighing and selecting among

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How retrosplenial inputs drive visual representations in the medial entorhinal cortex?

Dubanet, Olivier, and Michael J. Higley. “Retrosplenial inputs drive visual representations in the medial entorhinal cortex.” Cell Reports 43.7 (2024).

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“The importance of visual cues for navigation and goal-directed behavior is well established, although the neural mechanisms

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Whether and how neural dynamics of hippocampal neurons are influenced by the presence and actions of human experimenters?

Snyder, M.C., Qi, K.K. & Yartsev, M.M. Neural representation of human experimenters in the bat hippocampusNat Neurosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01690-8

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“Here we conducted wireless electrophysiological recording of hippocampal neurons from Egyptian fruit bats in the presence of human

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How the brain perform control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow?

Madhav, M.S., Jayakumar, R.P., Li, B.Y. et al. Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow. Nat Neurosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01681-9

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Hippocampal place cells are influenced by both self-motion (idiothetic) signals and external sensory

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What’s the human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation?

Martin Seeber, Matthias Stangl, Mauricio Vallejo, Uros Topalovic, Sonja Hiller, Casey H. Halpern, Jean-Philippe Langevin, Vikram R. Rao, Itzhak Fried, Dawn Eliashiv, Nanthia Suthana. Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation. bioRxiv 2024.05.23.595237; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.23.595237

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The

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How medial entorhinal cortex mediates learning of context-dependent interval timing behavior?

Bigus, E.R., Lee, HW., Bowler, J.C. et al. Medial entorhinal cortex mediates learning of context-dependent interval timing behavior. Nat Neurosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01683-7

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Episodic memory requires encoding the temporal structure of experience and relies on brain circuits in

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How animals simultaneously map their surroundings and tether goals to these surroundings during early experience in a novel environment?

Dan, Chuntao, Brad K. Hulse, Ramya Kappagantula, Vivek Jayaraman and Ann M. Hermundstad. “A neural circuit architecture for rapid learning in goal-directed navigation.” Neuron (2024): DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.04.036

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Anchoring goals to spatial representations enables flexible navigation but is

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