Tag: Allocentric

How egocentric and allocentric reference frames are chosen and interact in navigation tasks, as well as how they are supported by representations in the brain？

Vijayabaskaran S, Cheng S (2022) Navigation task and action space drive the emergence of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations. PLoS Comput Biol 18(10): e1010320. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010320

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“In general, strategies for spatial navigation could employ one of two spatial …

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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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How is the sense of space properly updated when travelling and heading angles differ?

Cheng Lyu, L. F. Abbott & Gaby Maimon. Building an allocentric travelling direction signal via vector computation. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04067-0

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“Many behavioural tasks require the manipulation of mathematical vectors, but, outside of computational models1,2,3,4,5,6,7, it is not known …

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How does the brain implement allocentric-egocentric coordinate transformation to guide navigation behavior?

Joeri BG van Wijngaarden, Susanne S Babl, Hiroshi T Ito. Entorhinal-retrosplenial circuits for allocentric-egocentric transformation of boundary coding. Elife. 2020 Nov 3;9:e59816. doi: 10.7554/eLife.59816. PMID: 33138915.

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“Spatial navigation requires landmark coding from two perspectives, relying on viewpoint-invariant …

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How the human brain encodes allocentric boundary and goal direction information?

Shine, J.P., Valdés-Herrera, J.P., Tempelmann, C. et al. Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculum. Nat Commun 10, 4004 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11802-9

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“In rodents, cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (EC) …

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How the brain performs egocentric-to-allocentric transformations?

Cheng Wang, Xiaojing Chen, James J Knierim. Egocentric and allocentric representations of space in the rodent brain, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 60, 2020, Pages 12-20,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.11.005.

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“Spatial signals are prevalent within the hippocampus and its neighboring regions. It …

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How the brain performs spatial coordinate transforms for navigation?

Rolls, ET. Spatial coordinate transforms linking the allocentric hippocampal and egocentric parietal primate brain systems for memory, action in space, and navigation. Hippocampus. 2019; 1– 22. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23171

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“A theory and model of spatial coordinate transforms in the dorsal …

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