Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the 'real world'

M Stangl, SL Maoz, N Suthana - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Cognitive neuroscience studies in humans have enabled decades of impactful discoveries
but have primarily been limited to recording the brain activity of immobile participants in a …

Natural behavior is the language of the brain

CT Miller, D Gire, K Hoke, AC Huk, D Kelley… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
The breadth and complexity of natural behaviors inspires awe. Understanding how our
perceptions, actions, and internal thoughts arise from evolved circuits in the brain has …

Abstract representations emerge in human hippocampal neurons during inference

HS Courellis, J Minxha, AR Cardenas, DL Kimmel… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Humans have the remarkable cognitive capacity to rapidly adapt to changing environments.
Central to this capacity is the ability to form high-level, abstract representations that take …

Automated markerless pose estimation in freely moving macaques with OpenMonkeyStudio

PC Bala, BR Eisenreich, SBM Yoo, BY Hayden… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The rhesus macaque is an important model species in several branches of science,
including neuroscience, psychology, ethology, and medicine. The utility of the macaque …

Neuronal vector coding in spatial cognition

A Bicanski, N Burgess - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Several types of neurons involved in spatial navigation and memory encode the distance
and direction (that is, the vector) between an agent and items in its environment. Such …

Phase precession in the human hippocampus and entorhinal cortex

SE Qasim, I Fried, J Jacobs - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Knowing where we are, where we have been, and where we are going is critical to many
behaviors, including navigation and memory. One potential neuronal mechanism underlying …

Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus

AE Comrie, LM Frank, K Kay - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Spatial modulation of hippocampal activity in freely moving macaques

D Mao, E Avila, B Caziot, J Laurens, JD Dickman… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
The hippocampal formation is linked to spatial navigation, but there is little corroboration
from freely moving primates with concurrent monitoring of head and gaze stances. We …

Memory-related processing is the primary driver of human hippocampal theta oscillations

SE Seger, JLS Kriegel, BC Lega, AD Ekstrom - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Decades of work in rodents suggest that movement is a powerful driver of hippocampal low-
frequency" theta" oscillations. Puzzlingly, such movement-related theta increases in …

Brain stimulation competes with ongoing oscillations for control of spike timing in the primate brain

MR Krause, PG Vieira, JP Thivierge, CC Pack - PLoS biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a popular method for modulating brain
activity noninvasively. In particular, tACS is often used as a targeted intervention that …