Category: Spatial Memory

How hippocampal activity supports building predictive models by organizing newly learned information according to its congruence with existing memories?

Adam M. P. Miller, Alex D. Jacob, Adam I. Ramsaran, Mitchell L. De Snoo, Sheena A. Josselyn, Paul W. Frankland. Evolution of predictive memory in the hippocampus. bioRxiv 2022.09.08.507204; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.08.507204

Summary
“The brain organizes experiences into memories that …

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How hippocampal astrocytes encode reward location?

Adi Doron, Alon Rubin, Aviya Benmelech-Chovav, Netai Benaim, Tom Carmi, Ron Refaeli, Nechama Novick, Tirzah Kreisel, Yaniv Ziv & Inbal Goshen. Hippocampal astrocytes encode reward location. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05146-6

Abstract
“Astrocytic calcium dynamics has been implicated in the encoding …

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Whether rats can learn spaces just by observation?

Doublet T, Nosrati M and Kentros CG (2022) Social Learning of a Spatial Task by Observation Alone. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 16:902675. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.902675

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“Interactions between conspecifics are central to the acquisition of useful memories in the real world. …

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How conjunctive and complementary CA1 hippocampal cell populations relate sensory events to immobility and locomotion?

Samsoon Inayat, Brendan B McAllister, Bruce L McNaughton, Ian Q Whishaw, Majid H Mohajerani. Conjunctive and complementary CA1 hippocampal cell populations relate sensory events to immobility and locomotion. bioRxiv 2022.07.06.498996; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.06.498996

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The way in which the

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How the brain associate multiple sensory cues with objects and experience?

Scott Waddell, Zeynep Okray, Pedro F Jacob, Ciara Stern, Kieran Desmond, Nils Otto, Paola Vargas-Gutierrez. Multisensory learning binds modality-specific neurons into a cross-modal memory engram. bioRxiv 2022.07.08.499174; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.08.499174

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Associating multiple sensory cues with objects and experience

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Whether network oscillation occurs in MEC at behavioural time scales in the second-to-minute regime such as spatial navigation and episodic memory?

Soledad Gonzalo Cogno, Horst A. Obenhaus, Ragnhild Irene Jacobsen, Flavio Donato, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser. Minute-scale oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex. bioRxiv 2022.05.02.490273; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.02.490273

Abstract
The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) hosts many of the brain’s

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How does the brain translate experiences into structured knowledge that allows us to navigate to achieve goals?

Corey Fernandez, Jiefeng Jiang, Shao-Fang Wang, Hannah Choi, Anthony D Wagner. Representational integration and differentiation in the human hippocampus following goal-directed navigation. bioRxiv 2022.04.12.488078; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.12.488078

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“As we learn, dynamic memory processes build structured knowledge across our experiences. …

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