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

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“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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Whether humans represent a curved surface by building a dimension-reduced flattened 2D map or a full 3D map?

Misun Kim, Christian F. Doeller. Adaptive cognitive maps for curved surfaces in the 3D world.  bioRxiv 2021.08.30.458179; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.30.458179

Abstract
“Terrains in a 3D world can be undulating. Yet, most prior research has exclusively investigated spatial representations on a …

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How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation？

Xuelong Sun, Shigang Yue, Michael Mangan. How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation. bioRxiv 2021.08.18.456777; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.18.456777

Abstract
“The central complex of the insect midbrain is thought to coordinate insect guidance strategies. Computational models can account for …

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How do the neurons in rat retrosplenial cortex encode environment symmetry?

Ningyu Zhang, Roddy M Grieves, Kate J Jeffery. Environment symmetry drives a multidirectional code in rat retrosplenial cortex. bioRxiv 2021.08.22.457261; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.22.457261

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“A class of neurons showing bidirectional tuning in a two-compartment environment was recently discovered in …

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