Category: Neural Basis of Navigation

How the brain maintain and update the uncertainty about one’s location to navigate efficiently?

Yul HR Kang, Daniel M Wolpert, Máté Lengyel. Spatial uncertainty and environmental geometry in navigation. bioRxiv 2023.01.30.526278; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.30.526278

Abstract
Variations in the geometry of the environment, such as the shape and size of an enclosure, have profound

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How entorhinal grid-like codes and time-locked network dynamics track others navigating through space?

Isabella C. Wagner, Luise P. Graichen, Boryana Todorova, Andre Lüttig, David B. Omer, Matthias Stangl & Claus Lamm. Entorhinal grid-like codes and time-locked network dynamics track others navigating through space. Nat Commun 14, 231 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35819-3

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Navigating

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How causal inference is performed in attributing retinal motion to self- and object-motion during closed-loop goal-directed navigation?

Jean-Paul Noel, Johannes Bill, Haoran Ding, John Vastola, Gregory C DeAngelis, Dora Angelaki, Jan Drugowitsch. Causal inference during closed-loop navigation: parsing of self- and object-motion. bioRxiv 2023.01.27.525974; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.27.525974

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A key computation in building adaptive internal models

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How the human brain is tuned to veridical head direction signals?

Benjamin J Griffiths, Thomas Schreiner, Julia Schaefer, Christian Vollmar, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Stefanie Quach, Jan Remi, Soheyl Noachtar, Tobias Staudigl. Electrophysiological signatures of veridical head direction in humans. bioRxiv 2023.01.26.525724; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.26.525724

Abstract
“Information about heading direction is critical for …

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How navigation and memory processes interact in humans?

Thomas Schreiner, Benjamin J. Griffiths, Merve Kutlu, Christian Vollmar, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Stefanie Quach, Jan Remi, Soheyl Noachtar, Tobias Staudigl. Memory reactivation of real-world spatial orientation revealed by human electrophysiology. bioRxiv 2023.01.27.525854; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.27.525854

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Spatial navigation and memory

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How retrosplenial cortex computes heading direction from landmark information?

Eleonora Lomi, Kate Jeffery, Anna Mitchell. Convergence of direction, location and theta in the rat anteroventral thalamic nucleus. bioRxiv 2023.01.11.523585; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.11.523585

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Retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is a cortical region that computes heading direction from landmark information, but

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How the hippocampus incorporates new contextual information into a previously formed and stabilized spatial representation?

Jake Ormond, Simon A. Serka, Joshua P. Johansen. Enhanced reactivation of remapping place cells during aversive learning. Journal of Neuroscience 3 January 2023, JN-RM-1450-22; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1450-22.2022

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Study of the hippocampal place cell system has greatly enhanced our

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