Biological organisms learn from interactions with their environment throughout their lifetime.
For artificial systems to successfully act and adapt in the real world, it is desirable to similarly …

The mammalian hippocampal formation contains several distinct populations of neurons
involved in representing self-position and orientation. These neurons, which include place …

In mammals, the selective transformation of transient experience into stored memory occurs
in the hippocampus, which develops representations of specific events in the context in …

Imagination is a biological function that is vital to human experience and advanced
cognition. Despite this importance, it remains unknown how imagination is realized in the …

Episodic memory relies on the hippocampus, a heterogeneous brain region with distinct
functions. Spatial representations in the dorsal hippocampus (dHPC) are crucial for …

Sets of spikes emitted sequentially across neurons constitute fundamental pulse packets in
neural information processing, including offline memory replay during hippocampal sharp …

Understanding what someone says requires relating words in a sentence to one another as
instructed by the grammatical rules of a language. In recent years, the neurophysiological …

The NMDA receptor-mediated Ca2+ signaling during simultaneous pre-and postsynaptic
activity is critically involved in synaptic plasticity and thus has a key role in the nervous …

In mammals, the activity of neurons in the entorhinal-hippocampal network is modulated by
the animal's position and its movement through space. At multiple stages of this distributed …

Schizophrenia is a complex disorder that remains poorly understood, particularly at the
systems level. In this opinion article we argue that the explore/exploit trade-off concept …