How to build a cognitive map

JCR Whittington, D McCaffary, JJW Bakermans… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Learning and interpreting the structure of the environment is an innate feature of biological
systems, and is integral to guiding flexible behaviors for evolutionary viability. The concept of …

Replay, the default mode network and the cascaded memory systems model

K Kaefer, F Stella, BL McNaughton… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The spontaneous replay of patterns of activity related to past experiences and memories is a
striking feature of brain activity, as is the coherent activation of sets of brain areas …

Geometry of abstract learned knowledge in the hippocampus

EH Nieh, M Schottdorf, NW Freeman, RJ Low… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Hippocampal neurons encode physical variables,,,,,–such as space or auditory frequency in
cognitive maps. In addition, functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in humans have …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted activation of hippocampal place cells drives memory-guided spatial behavior

NTM Robinson, LAL Descamps, LE Russell… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The hippocampus is crucial for spatial navigation and episodic memory formation.
Hippocampal place cells exhibit spatially selective activity within an environment and have …

[HTML][HTML] What is a cognitive map? Organizing knowledge for flexible behavior

TEJ Behrens, TH Muller, JCR Whittington, S Mark… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
It is proposed that a cognitive map encoding the relationships between entities in the world
supports flexible behavior, but the majority of the neural evidence for such a system comes …

[HTML][HTML] Fos ensembles encode and shape stable spatial maps in the hippocampus

NL Pettit, EL Yap, ME Greenberg, CD Harvey - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In the hippocampus, spatial maps are formed by place cells while contextual memories are
thought to be encoded as engrams,,,,–. Engrams are typically identified by expression of the …

Neural dynamics underlying associative learning in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus

JS Biane, MA Ladow, F Stefanini, SP Boddu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Animals associate cues with outcomes and update these associations as new information is
presented. This requires the hippocampus, yet how hippocampal neurons track changes in …

No free lunch from deep learning in neuroscience: A case study through models of the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit

R Schaeffer, M Khona, I Fiete - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Research in Neuroscience, as in many scientific disciplines, is undergoing a renaissance
based on deep learning. Unique to Neuroscience, deep learning models can be used not …

Navigating for reward

M Sosa, LM Giocomo - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
An organism's survival can depend on its ability to recall and navigate to spatial locations
associated with rewards, such as food or a home. Accumulating research has revealed that …

[HTML][HTML] Entorhinal cortex directs learning-related changes in CA1 representations

C Grienberger, JC Magee - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Learning-related changes in brain activity are thought to underlie adaptive behaviours,. For
instance, the learning of a reward site by rodents requires the development of an over …