Category: Neural Basis of Navigation

How the vestibular system influences the generation, maintenance, and updating of the head direction signal?

Jalina A. Graham, Julie R. Dumont, Shawn S. Winter, Joel E. Brown, Patrick A. LaChance, Carly C. Amon, Kara B. Farnes, Ashlyn J. Morris, Nicholas A. Streltzov, Jeffrey S. Taube. Angular head velocity cells within brainstem nuclei projecting to the

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How context recognition and heading retrieval are coded in CA1 and how these processes change with experience during spatial reorientation?

Celia M. Gagliardi, Marc E. Normandin, Alexandra T. Keinath, Joshua B. Julian, Matthew R. Lopez, Manuel-Miguel Ramos-Alvarez, Russell A. Epstein, and Isabel A. Muzzio. Distinct neural mechanisms for heading retrieval and context recognition in the hippocampus during spatial reorientation

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How hippocampal cognitive maps are used and updated fexibly for inference?

Mona M. Garvert, Tankred Saanum, Eric Schulz, Nicolas W. Schuck & Christian F. Doeller. Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. Nat Neurosci (2023).

Abstract
“The brain forms cognitive maps of relational knowledge—an organizing principle thought to underlie …

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How the neural compass flexibly adapts to changing environmental cues to maintain a reliable representation of HD?

Zaki Ajabi, Alexandra T. Keinath, Xue-Xin Wei & Mark P. Brandon. Population dynamics of head-direction neurons during drift and reorientationNature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05813-2

Abstract
“The head direction (HD) system functions as the brain’s internal compass1,2, classically formalized as a …

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Which neural circuits utilize relevant cues to initiate integration?

Raphael Heldman, Dongyan Pang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Yingxue Wang. A CA1 circuit motif that signals the start of information integration. bioRxiv 2023.03.12.532295; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.12.532295

Abstract
Integrating information from the recent past is critical for guiding predictions and shaping behavior

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How cognitive maps are transformed across hippocampal-prefrontal circuits to support abstraction and generalization?

Wenbo Tang, Justin D. Shin, Shantanu P. Jadhav. Geometric transformation of cognitive maps for generalization across hippocampal-prefrontal circuits. Cell Reports 42, 112246, March 28, 2023. 

Summary
The ability to abstract information to guide decisions during navigation across changing

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How to estimate animal location from grid cell population activity using persistent cohomology?

Daisuke Kawahara, Shigeyoshi Fujisawa. Estimation of animal location from grid cell population activity using persistent cohomology. bioRxiv 2023.01.10.523361; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.10.523361

Abstract
“Many cognitive functions are represented as cell assemblies. For example, the population activity of place cells in the …

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