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Self-motion improves head direction cell tuning

Journal of Neurophysiology, 2014
Head direction (HD) cells respond when an animal faces a particular direction in the environment and form the basis for the animal's perceived directional heading. When an animal moves through its environment, accurate updating of the HD signal is required to reflect the current heading, but the cells still maintain a representation of HD even when the
Michael E, Shinder, Jeffrey S, Taube
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Air‐Pressure–Actuated Vibroacoustic Metamaterial With Tunable Bandgap: Design, Modeling, and Characterization

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This article presents the design, modeling, and characterization of air‐pressure–actuated programmable vibroacoustic metamaterials (PVAMM). The study focuses on leveraging air pressure to dynamically tune resonance frequencies for effective noise attenuation.
William Kaal, Michael M. Becker, Sarah C. L. Fischer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Processing the head direction cell signal: A review and commentary

Brain Research Bulletin, 1996
Animals require information about their location and directional heading in order to navigate. Directional information is provided by a population of cells in the postsubiculum and the anterior thalamic nuclei that encode a very accurate, continual representation of the animal's directional heading in the horizontal plane, which is independent of the ...
J S, Taube, J P, Goodridge, E J, Golob, P A, Dudchenko, R W, Stackman   +4 more
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Fostering Innovation: Streamlining Magnetocaloric Materials Research by Digitalization

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Magnetocaloric cooling (MCE) is an environmentally friendly refrigeration method with great potential. Optimizing MCE materials involves the preparation and screening of large quantities of samples, which in turn generates a large amount of data. A digitalization approach is presented that uses ontologies, knowledge graphs, and digital workflows to ...
Simon Bekemeier, Moritz Blum, Luana Caron, Alisa Chirkova, Philipp Cimiano, Basil Ell, Inga Ennen, Michael Feige, Maik Gaerner, Thomas Hilbig, Andreas Hütten, Günter Reiss, Tapas Samanta, Sonja Schöning, Christian Schröder, Lennart Schwan, Chris Taake, Martin Wortmann   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial Navigation: Head Direction Cells Are Anchored by Gravity [PDF]

Current Biology, 2013
Thalamic neurons that signal an animal's direction of heading are crucial for spatial navigation. Both directional coding and flexible use of spatial memory are upended, however, when a rat has to find its way while upside down.
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Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch, Maximilian Holland, Klaus Drechsler, Johannes Schilp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A model combining oscillations and attractor dynamics for generation of grid cell firing

Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2012
Different models have been able to account for different features of the data on grid cell firing properties, including the relationship of grid cells to cellular properties and network oscillations. This paper describes a model that combines elements of
Michael E Hasselmo, Mark P. Brandon
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Equilibrium States and Their Stability in the Head-Direction Ring Network

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2020
Head-direction cells have been found in several areas in the mammalian brains. The firing rate of an ideal head-direction cell reaches its peak value only when the animal's head points in a specific direction, and this preferred direction stays the same ...
Caixia Wang, Caixia Wang, Kechen Zhang
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High‐Temperature Nanoindentation of Metals: Assessing Thermal Drift, Frame Compliance, and Chemical Composition Effects on the Reported Mechanical Properties

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Do not let thermal drift and instrument artifacts deceive high‐temperature nanoindentation results. We compare classical Oliver–Pharr and automatic image recognition analyses across steels and a Ni alloy to quantify these effects. Accounting for artifacts reveals systematic softening with temperature, while Cr and Ni additions boost resistance ...
Velislava Yonkova, Steffen Brinckmann, Ruth Schwaiger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Growing Evidence for the Importance of the Otoliths in Spatial Memory

Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2019
Many studies have demonstrated that vestibular sensory input is important for spatial learning and memory. However, it has been unclear what contributions the different parts of the vestibular system – the semi-circular canals and otoliths – make to ...
Paul F. Smith, Paul F. Smith, Paul F. Smith   +2 more
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