ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2020
The head direction cell network: attractor dynamics, integration within the navigation system, and three-dimensional properties.
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- A self-organizing developmental framework for the head direction ring attractor.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- The parafascicular thalamus steers attention to facilitate learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Modeling the journey as well as the destination: a control theory account of rotational navigation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Visual Aggregation Sensitivity of theInsects · 2026Article
- Continuous attractor dynamics in spatial navigation: from population geometry to flexible computation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- A computational model for angular velocity integration in a locust heading circuit.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Synaptic ring attractor: A unified framework for attractor dynamics and multiple cues integration.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Learning to use landmarks for navigation amplifies their representation in retrosplenial cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Unsupervised classification of brain-wide axons reveals the presubiculum neuronal projection blueprint.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly brain.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Unsupervised classification of brain-wide axons reveals neuronal projection blueprint.Research square · 2023Article
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- Coregistration of heading to visual cues in retrosplenial cortex.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Tilt in Place Microscopy: a Simple, Low-Cost Solution to Image Neural Responses to Body Rotations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Ring attractor bio-inspired neural network for social robot navigation.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2023Article
- Attractor and integrator networks in the brain.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2022Review
- Flexible cue anchoring strategies enable stable head direction coding in both sighted and blind animals.Nature communications · 2022Article
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- Spiking Neural Networks and Hippocampal Function: A Web-Accessible Survey of Simulations, Modeling Methods, and Underlying Theories.Cognitive systems research · 2021Article
- A Positioning Method Based on Place Cells and Head-Direction Cells for Inertial/Visual Brain-Inspired Navigation System.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Knowledge of head direction cell function has progressed remarkably in recent years. The predominant theory that they form an attractor has been confirmed by several experiments. Candidate pathways that may convey visual input have been identified. The pre-subicular circuitry that conveys head direction signals to the medial entorhinal cortex, potentially sustaining path integration by grid cells, has been resolved. Although the neuronal substrate of the attractor remains unknown in mammals, a simple head direction network, whose structure is astoundingly similar to neuronal models theorized decades earlier, has been identified in insects. Finally, recent experiments have revealed that these cells do not encode head direction in the horizontal plane only, but also in vertical planes, thus providing a 3D orientation signal.
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