Category: Cognitive Navigation

Whether self‐reported navigation ability is related to information transfer between optic flow‐sensitive (OF‐sensitive) cortical regions and regions important to navigation during environmental spatial tasks?

Zajac, Lauren, Heather Burte, Holly A. Taylor, and Ronald Killiany. “Self‐reported navigation ability is associated with optic flow‐sensitive regions’ functional connectivity patterns during visual path integration.” Brain and behavior 9, no. 4 (2019): e01236.

Abstract
Introduction
“Spatial navigation …

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How different sensory streams are integrated to drive spatial navigation in the brain?

Currier, Timothy A., and Katherine I. Nagel. “Multisensory control of navigation in the fruit fly.” Current Opinion in Neurobiology 64 (2020): 10-16.

Spatial navigation is influenced by cues from nearly every sensory modality and thus provides an …

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How an allocentric representation of surrounding visual space can be constructed and stored by the dorsal visual path?

Li, Tianyi, Angelo Arleo, and Denis Sheynikhovich. “A model of a panoramic visual representation in the dorsal visual pathway: the case of spatial reorientation and memory-based search.” bioRxiv (2019): 827667.

Abstract
Primates are primarily visual animals and …

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What’s the neural basis of probabilistic computation in visual cortex?

Walker, Edgar Y., R. James Cotton, Wei Ji Ma, and Andreas S. Tolias. “A neural basis of probabilistic computation in visual cortex.” Nature Neuroscience 23, no. 1 (2020): 122-129.

Abstract
Bayesian models of behavior suggest that organisms

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How does the primate hippocampus represent objects and space during virtual navigation?

Gulli, Roberto A., Lyndon R. Duong, Benjamin W. Corrigan, Guillaume Doucet, Sylvain Williams, Stefano Fusi, and Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo. “Context-dependent representations of objects and space in the primate hippocampus during virtual navigation.” Nature Neuroscience 23, no. 1 (2020): …

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Recent progress in the study of the head direction cell network: attractor dynamics, integration within the navigation system, and three-dimensional properties

Dora E Angelaki, Jean Laurens. The head direction cell network: attractor dynamics, integration within the navigation system, and three-dimensional properties. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 60, 2020, Pages 136-144, ISSN 0959-4388, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.12.002.

Highlights
•Head Direction Cells form an attractor …

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How specific populations of cells within the LEC contribute to the integration of episodic memory components?

Vandrey, Brianna, Derek LF Garden, Veronika Ambrozova, Christina McClure, Matthew F. Nolan, and James A. Ainge. “Fan Cells in Layer 2 of the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex Are Critical for Episodic-like Memory.” Current Biology (2019).

Summary
Episodic memory

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