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Directional dynamics in the entorhinal cortex of male mice driven by behavioral constraints [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe medial entorhinal cortex of rodents contains a variety of functionally-defined cell types, including grid and head direction cells. While evidence indicates that functional types are not associated with clear molecular footprints, the factors that ...
Ruojin Liu +8 more
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Continuous attractor dynamics in spatial navigation: from population geometry to flexible computation [PDF]
Frontiers in NeuroscienceA central computational problem in spatial navigation is how spatial representations remain stable under noise and uncertainty, and update reliable estimations of continuous variables such as head-direction and position, which respectively rely on the ...
Yani Chen +6 more
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A Bio-Inspired 3-D Neural Compass Based on Head Direction Cells
IEEE Access, 2021 Head direction cells (HDCs) in mammals’ brains are thought to provide the sense of direction (function of a compass). They fire when the animal’s head points to a specific orientation.
Baozhong Li, Yanming Liu, Lei Lai
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Brain and Behavior, 2021 Objective Head direction cell and place cell spatially tuned firing is often anchored to salient visual landmarks on the periphery of a recording environment.
Anna E. Smith +2 more
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Journal of Automation and Intelligence, 2023 To derive meaningful navigation strategies, animals have to estimate their directional headings in the environment. Accordingly, this function is achieved by the head direction cells that were found in mammalian brains, whose neural activities encode one’
Zhenshan Bing +4 more
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Statistical and information properties of head direction cells [PDF]
Perception & Psychophysics, 2001 The human channel capacity for identifying sensory stimuli is compared with channel capacities based on neurophysiological findings. Studies have shown that cells in the postsubiculum (PoS) and the anterior dorsal thalamus (ADN) of the rat discharge as a function of the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane.
J C, Baird, J S, Taube, D V, Peterson
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Nature Communications, 2022 Vision plays an important role in the head direction cell system in animals. Here the authors recorded from head direction cells in rd1 mice that show retinal degeneration at 1 month, and find that they use smell cues to maintain stable HD tuning.
Kadjita Asumbisa +2 more
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Reverse Engineering and Robotics as Tools for Analyzing Neural Circuits
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2021 Understanding neuronal circuits that have evolved over millions of years to control adaptive behavior may provide us with alternative solutions to problems in robotics.
Ioannis Pisokas
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Rapid Spatial Reorientation and Head Direction Cells [PDF]
The Journal of Neuroscience, 2003 It is surprising how quickly we can find our bearings when suddenly confronted with a familiar environment, for instance when the lights are turned on in a dark room. Subjectively, this appears to occur almost instantaneously, yet the neural processes permitting this rapid reorientation are unknown.
Zugaro, Michaël B +3 more
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Head direction maps remain stable despite grid map fragmentation
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2012 Areas encoding space in the brain contain both representations of position (place cells and grid cells) and representations of azimuth (head direction cells).
Jonathan R Whitlock, Dori eDerdikman
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