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] Neural circuits for goal-directed navigation across species

J Basu, K Nagel - Trends in Neurosciences, 2024 - cell.com
Across species, navigation is crucial for finding both resources and shelter. In vertebrates,
the hippocampus supports memory-guided goal-directed navigation, whereas in arthropods …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct codes for environment structure and symmetry in postrhinal and retrosplenial cortices

PA LaChance, ME Hasselmo - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Complex sensory information arrives in the brain from an animal's first-person ('egocentric')
perspective. However, animals can efficiently navigate as if referencing map-like …

A large-scale neurocomputational model of spatial cognition integrating memory with vision

M Burkhardt, J Bergelt, L Gönner, HÜ Dinkelbach… - Neural Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
We introduce a large-scale neurocomputational model of spatial cognition called'Spacecog',
which integrates recent findings from mechanistic models of visual and spatial perception …

[HTML][HTML] Building egocentric models of local space from retinal input

DM Martins, JM Manda, MJ Goard, PRL Parker - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Determining the location of objects relative to ourselves is essential for interacting with the
world. Neural activity in the retina is used to form a vision-independent model of the local …

Distinct cortical spatial representations learned along disparate visual pathways

Y Lian, PA LaChance, S Malmberg, ME Hasselmo… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Recent experimental studies have discovered diverse spatial properties, such as head
direction tuning and egocentric tuning, of neurons in the postrhinal cortex (POR) and …

Unifying sparse coding, predictive coding, and divisive normalization

Y Lian, AN Burkitt - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Sparse coding, predictive coding and divisive normalization have each been found to be
principles that underlie the function of neural circuits in many parts of the brain, supported by …

Learning spatio-temporal V1 cells from diverse LGN inputs

MA Ruslim, AN Burkitt, Y Lian - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Since the Nobel-winning discovery of simple cells and complex cells in cat's primary visual
cortex (V1) by Hubel and Wiesel, many experimental studies of the visual system of the brain …