Category: Cognitive Navigation

How the running speed modulates the firing rate of the place cells?

McClain, Kathryn et al “Position–theta-phase model of hippocampal place cell activity applied to quantification of running speed modulation of firing rate.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019): 201912792. Web. 20 Dec. 2019.

Significance
“The hippocampus is …

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How do backward walking ants cope with navigational uncertainty?

Sebastian Schwarz, Leo Clement, Evripides Gkanias, Antoine Wystrach. How do backward walking ants (Cataglyphis velox) cope with navigational uncertainty? bioRxiv 2019.12.16.877704; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.16.877704

ABSTRACT
“Current opinion in insect navigation assumes that animals need to align with the goal direction to …

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How the brain and robots encode social location information?

Bos, Jeroen J., Martin Vinck, Pietro Marchesi, Amos Keestra, Laura A. van Mourik-Donga, Jadin C. Jackson, Paul FMJ Verschure, and Cyriel MA Pennartz. “Multiplexing of Information about Self and Others in Hippocampal Ensembles.” Cell Reports 29, no. 12 …

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What could be the computational benefits of such a mapping between intrinsic dynamical structure and external sensory inputs for navigation in the brain?

Christian Leibold. A Model for Navigation in Unknown Environments Based on a Reservoir of Hippocampal Sequences. 
bioRxiv 2019.12.18.880583; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.18.880583

Abstract
“Hippocampal place cell populations are activated in sequences on multiple time scales during active behavior, resting and sleep …

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How to conduct a quantitative comparison of machine learning and statistical model-based decoding methods on HD cell activity?

Xu Z, Wu W, Winter SS, Mehlman ML, Butler WN, Simmons CM, Harvey RE, Berkowitz LE, Chen Y, Taube JS, Wilber AA and Clark BJ (2019) A Comparison of Neural Decoding Methods and Population Coding Across Thalamo-Cortical Head Direction Cells…

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How the grid cells perform path integral, path planning and error correction?

Gao, Ruiqi & Xie, Jianwen & Zhu, Song & Wu, Yingnian.  Learning Grid Cells as Vector Representation of Self-Position Coupled with Matrix Representation of Self-Motion. ICLR 2019

Abstract

“This paper proposes a representational model for grid cells. In …

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How to decode sensory and behavioural variables directly from wide-band neural data?

Markus Frey, Sander Tanni, Catherine Perrodin, Alice O’Leary, Matthias Nau, Jack Kelly, Andrea Banino, Christian F Doeller, Caswell Barry. DeepInsight: A general framework for interpreting wide-band neural activity. bioRxiv 871848; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/871848

Abstract
“Rapid progress in technologies such as …

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