Structuring knowledge with cognitive maps and cognitive graphs

M Peer, IK Brunec, NS Newcombe… - Trends in cognitive …, 2021 - cell.com
Humans and animals use mental representations of the spatial structure of the world to
navigate. The classical view is that these representations take the form of Euclidean …

Space and time: the hippocampus as a sequence generator

G Buzsáki, D Tingley - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Neural computations are often compared to instrument-measured distance or duration, and
such relationships are interpreted by a human observer. However, neural circuits do not …

Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings

NA Steinmetz, C Aydin, A Lebedeva, M Okun… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Electrode arrays based on complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
silicon fabrication technology, such as Neuropixels probes, have enabled recordings of …

An integrative view of human hippocampal function: Differences with other species and capacity considerations

R Quian Quiroga - Hippocampus, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We describe an integrative model that encodes associations between related concepts in
the human hippocampal formation, constituting the skeleton of episodic memories. The …

Self-supervised learning of representations for space generates multi-modular grid cells

R Schaeffer, M Khona, T Ma… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
To solve the spatial problems of mapping, localization and navigation, the mammalian
lineage has developed striking spatial representations. One important spatial representation …

Locally ordered representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortex

G Ginosar, J Aljadeff, Y Burak, H Sompolinsky, L Las… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
As animals navigate on a two-dimensional surface, neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex
(MEC) known as grid cells are activated when the animal passes through multiple locations …

Egocentric boundary vector tuning of the retrosplenial cortex

AS Alexander, LC Carstensen, JR Hinman… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The retrosplenial cortex is reciprocally connected with multiple structures implicated in
spatial cognition, and damage to the region itself produces numerous spatial impairments …

The entorhinal cognitive map is attracted to goals

CN Boccara, M Nardin, F Stella, J O'Neill, J Csicsvari - Science, 2019 - science.org
Grid cells with their rigid hexagonal firing fields are thought to provide an invariant metric to
the hippocampal cognitive map, yet environmental geometrical features have recently been …

Principles governing the integration of landmark and self-motion cues in entorhinal cortical codes for navigation

MG Campbell, SA Ocko, CS Mallory, IIC Low… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
To guide navigation, the nervous system integrates multisensory self-motion and landmark
information. We dissected how these inputs generate spatial representations by recording …

Are grid cells used for navigation? On local metrics, subjective spaces, and black holes

G Ginosar, J Aljadeff, L Las, D Derdikman, N Ulanovsky - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
The symmetric, lattice-like spatial pattern of grid-cell activity is thought to provide a neuronal
global metric for space. This view is compatible with grid cells recorded in empty boxes but …