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The Brain Compass: A Perspective on How Self-Motion Updates the Head Direction Cell Attractor.
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- Learning Gravity: An Innately Constrained Bayesian Model of Human Vestibular Development.Audiology research · 2026Article
- Hippocampal place cells map terrain geometry independently of behavior.Science advances · 2026Article
- Head direction cells use a head-referenced dual-axis updating rule in 3D space.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Multisensory coding of self-motion and its contribution to navigation.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Harnessing a noncanonical vestibular input in the head-direction network to rectify age-related navigational deficits.Nature aging · 2025Article
- Skull vibration induced nystagmus, velocity storage and self-stability.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Maintaining and updating accurate internal representations of continuous variables with a handful of neurons.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Suite for the Assessment of Low-Level cues on Orientation (SALLO): The psychophysics of spatial orientation in virtual reality.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map.Learning & behavior · 2024Review
- Cortical Integration of Vestibular and Visual Cues for Navigation, Visual Processing, and Perception.Annual review of neuroscience · 2023Review
- Vestibular perceptual testing from lab to clinic: a review.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
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- A Positioning Method Based on Place Cells and Head-Direction Cells for Inertial/Visual Brain-Inspired Navigation System.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Vestibular cues improve landmark-based route navigation: A simulated driving study.Memory & cognition · 2021Article
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- Volumetric spatial behaviour in rats reveals the anisotropic organisation of navigation.Animal cognition · 2021Article
- Association between vestibular function and rotational spatial orientation perception in older adults.Journal of vestibular research : equilibrium & orientation · 2021Article
- Retinal ganglion cell defects cause decision shifts in visually evoked defense responses.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Hot coffee: associative memory with bump attractor cell assemblies of spiking neurons.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Head direction cells form an internal compass signaling head azimuth orientation even without visual landmarks. This property is generated by a neuronal ring attractor that is updated using rotation velocity cues. The properties and origin of this velocity drive remain, however, unknown. We propose a quantitative framework whereby this drive represents a multisensory self-motion estimate computed through an internal model that uses sensory prediction errors of vestibular, visual, and somatosensory cues to improve on-line motor drive. We show how restraint-dependent strength of recurrent connections within the attractor can explain differences in head direction cell firing between free foraging and restrained passive rotation. We also summarize recent findings on how gravity influences azimuth coding, indicating that the velocity drive is not purely egocentric. Finally, we show that the internal compass may be three-dimensional and hypothesize that the additional vertical degrees of freedom use global allocentric gravity cues.
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