Category: Cognitive Map

How many migrating species navigate across vast distances?

Myles H. M. Menz, Martina Scacco, Hans-Martin Bürki-Spycher, Hannah J. Williams,Don R. Reynolds, Jason W. Chapman, Martin Wikelski. Individual tracking reveals long-distance flight-pathcontrol in a nocturnally migrating moth. SCIENCE, 11 Aug 2022,Vol 377, Issue 6607, pp. 764-768, DOI: 10.1126/science.abn1663…

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How landmark information reaches the hippocampus?

Elizabeth A.M.A. Allison, Joe W. Moore, Paul A. Dudchenko, Emma R. Wood. The medial entorhinal cortex is necessary for the stimulus control over hippocampal place fields by distal, but not proximal, landmarks. bioRxiv 2022.08.04.502628; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.04.502628

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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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How information about objects is represented in collective dynamics of the hippocampal population?

Anne Nagelhus, Sebastian Andersson, Soledad Gonzalo Cogno, Edvard I. Moser, May-Britt Moser. Object-centered population coding in CA1 of the hippocampus. bioRxiv 2022.07.07.499197; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.07.499197

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Objects and landmarks are crucial for guiding navigation and must be integrated into

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How the hippocampus creates a vector-based model to support flexible navigation, allowing animals to select optimal paths to destinations from any location in the environment?

Ormond, J., O’Keefe, J. Hippocampal place cells have goal-oriented vector fields during navigation. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04913-9

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“The hippocampal cognitive map supports navigation towards, or away from, salient locations in familiar environments1. Although much is known about how the

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How navigation task and action space drive the emergence of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations?

Sandhiya Vijayabaskaran, Sen Cheng. Navigation task and action space drive the emergence of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations. bioRxiv 2022.06.22.497126; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.22.497126

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“In general, strategies for spatial navigation could employ one of two spatial reference frames: egocentric or …

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