Rethinking retrosplenial cortex: perspectives and predictions

AS Alexander, R Place, MJ Starrett, ER Chrastil… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
The last decade has produced exciting new ideas about retrosplenial cortex (RSC) and its
role in integrating diverse inputs. Here, we review the diversity in forms of spatial and …

Gated transformations from egocentric to allocentric reference frames involving retrosplenial cortex, entorhinal cortex, and hippocampus

AS Alexander, JC Robinson, CE Stern… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the recent experimental finding that neurons in behaving rodents show
egocentric coding of the environment in a number of structures associated with the …

[HTML][HTML] Multisensory coding of angular head velocity in the retrosplenial cortex

S Keshavarzi, EF Bracey, RA Faville, D Campagner… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
To successfully navigate the environment, animals depend on their ability to continuously
track their heading direction and speed. Neurons that encode angular head velocity (AHV) …

[HTML][HTML] Shared and specialized coding across posterior cortical areas for dynamic navigation decisions

SY Tseng, SN Chettih, C Arlt, R Barroso-Luque… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Animals adaptively integrate sensation, planning, and action to navigate toward goal
locations in ever-changing environments, but the functional organization of cortex …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanistic flexibility of the retrosplenial cortex enables its contribution to spatial cognition

M Stacho, D Manahan-Vaughan - Trends in neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
The retrosplenial cortex (RC) is a brain structure crucial for spatial navigation and memory. It
contains neurons such as head direction cells, border cells, as well as other cells supporting …

Distance-tuned neurons drive specialized path integration calculations in medial entorhinal cortex

MG Campbell, A Attinger, SA Ocko, S Ganguli… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
During navigation, animals estimate their position using path integration and landmarks,
engaging many brain areas. Whether these areas follow specialized or universal cue …

Robust information routing by dorsal subiculum neurons

T Kitanishi, R Umaba, K Mizuseki - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
The dorsal hippocampus conveys various information associated with spatial navigation;
however, how the information is distributed to multiple downstream areas remains unknown …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial navigation signals in rodent visual cortex

T Flossmann, NL Rochefort - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•V1 activity is modulated by locomotion, distance travelled, spatial context and
head-movements.•Top-down cortical and subcortical inputs convey self-motion signals to V1 …

Wide-field calcium imaging of dynamic cortical networks during locomotion

SL West, JD Aronson, LS Popa, KD Feller… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motor behavior results in complex exchanges of motor and sensory information across
cortical regions. Therefore, fully understanding the cerebral cortex's role in motor behavior …

Bottom-up inputs are required for establishment of top-down connectivity onto cortical layer 1 neurogliaform cells

LA Ibrahim, S Huang, M Fernandez-Otero, M Sherer… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Higher-order projections to sensory cortical areas converge on layer 1 (L1), the primary site
for integration of top-down information via the apical dendrites of pyramidal neurons and L1 …