Attractor and integrator networks in the brain

M Khona, IR Fiete - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
In this Review, we describe the singular success of attractor neural network models in
describing how the brain maintains persistent activity states for working memory, corrects …

What is a cognitive map? Organizing knowledge for flexible behavior

TEJ Behrens, TH Muller, JCR Whittington, S Mark… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
It is proposed that a cognitive map encoding the relationships between entities in the world
supports flexible behavior, but the majority of the neural evidence for such a system comes …

Map** of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

D Aronov, R Nevers, DW Tank - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
During spatial navigation, neural activity in the hippocampus and the medial entorhinal
cortex (MEC) is correlated to navigational variables such as location,, head direction, speed …

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 …

Coordinated drift of receptive fields in Hebbian/anti-Hebbian network models during noisy representation learning

S Qin, S Farashahi, D Lipshutz, AM Sengupta… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent experiments have revealed that neural population codes in many brain areas
continuously change even when animals have fully learned and stably perform their tasks …

The grid code for ordered experience

JW Rueckemann, M Sosa, LM Giocomo… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Entorhinal cortical grid cells fire in a periodic pattern that tiles space, which is suggestive of a
spatial coordinate system. However, irregularities in the grid pattern as well as responses of …

Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation

JC Bowler, A Losonczy - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
The subregions of the entorhinal cortex (EC) are conventionally thought to compute
dichotomous representations for spatial processing, with the medial EC (MEC) providing a …

The hippocampus converts dynamic entorhinal inputs into stable spatial maps

T Cholvin, T Hainmueller, M Bartos - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC)-hippocampal network plays a key role in the
processing, storage, and recall of spatial information. However, how the spatial code …

A map-like micro-organization of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex

Y Gu, S Lewallen, AA Kinkhabwala, C Domnisoru… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
How the topography of neural circuits relates to their function remains unclear. Although
topographic maps exist for sensory and motor variables, they are rarely observed for …

Visual landmarks sharpen grid cell metric and confer context specificity to neurons of the medial entorhinal cortex

JA Pérez-Escobar, O Kornienko, P Latuske, L Kohler… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Neurons of the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) provide spatial representations critical for
navigation. In this network, the periodic firing fields of grid cells act as a metric element for …