ReviewThe Journal of experimental biology2019
Origin and role of path integration in the cognitive representations of the hippocampus: computational insights into open questions.
Review in The Journal of experimental biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
45 citing papers in PubMed.
- Coordinating Cognition: The Entorhinal Cortex in Mnemonic, Temporal and Spatial Representation.Cells · 2026Review
- Path integration in complex number space.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Simultaneous path-integration recalibration in head direction and place cells.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
- The Map's Design: Evolution's Impact on Navigation and Spatial Cognition.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Synchronized path-integration recalibration but distinct landmark-control dynamics in head direction and CA1 place cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Computational elements of natural vision.Journal of vision · 2025Review
- Grid cells accurately track movement during path integration-based navigation despite switching reference frames.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Map and compass navigation: the mechanism and ontogeny of animal maps.Animal behaviour · 2025Article
- Evaluation of a cognition-sensitive spatial virtual reality game for Alzheimer's disease.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2025Article
- Navigating space and the developing mind.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Multiplexing of temporal and spatial information in the lateral entorhinal cortex.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Building a cognitive map through self-motion.eLife · 2024Article
- Article
- Article
- Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Human navigation strategies and their errors result from dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Taking a shortcut: what mechanisms do fish use?Communications biology · 2024Article
- Spontaneous Dynamics of Hippocampal Place Fields in a Model of Combinatorial Competition among Stable Inputs.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map.Learning & behavior · 2024Review
- Multiplexing of temporal and spatial information in the lateral entorhinal cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Path integration is a straightforward concept with varied connotations that are important to different disciplines concerned with navigation, such as ethology, cognitive science, robotics and neuroscience. In studying the hippocampal formation, it is fruitful to think of path integration as a computation that transforms a sense of motion into a sense of location, continuously integrated with landmark perception. Here, we review experimental evidence that path integration is intimately involved in fundamental properties of place cells and other spatial cells that are thought to support a cognitive abstraction of space in this brain system. We discuss hypotheses about the anatomical and computational origin of path integration in the well-characterized circuits of the rodent limbic system. We highlight how computational frameworks for map-building in robotics and cognitive science alike suggest an essential role for path integration in the creation of a new map in unfamiliar territory, and how this very role can help us make sense of differences in neurophysiological data from novel versus familiar and small versus large environments. Similar computational principles could be at work when the hippocampus builds certain non-spatial representations, such as time intervals or trajectories defined in a sensory stimulus space.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.