ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2020
Neuronal vector coding in spatial cognition.
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71 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Preference for directional responding in a virtual Morris water task is associated with increased precuneus activation in adolescent humans.Behavioural brain research · 2026Article
- Boundary Vector Cells Encode a Future-Biased Spectrum of Positions in the Rat.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- The Contribution of Spatially Tuned Brain Cells to Human Navigation Performance.KN - journal of cartography and geographic information · 2026Review
- Landmark vector cells in the absence of visual input.iScience · 2025Article
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- A Neural Compass in the Human Brain during Naturalistic Virtual Navigation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Reconciling flexibility and efficiency: medial entorhinal cortex represents a compositional cognitive map.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Cell-type-specific cholinergic control of granular retrosplenial cortex with implications for angular velocity coding across brain states.Progress in neurobiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Several types of neurons involved in spatial navigation and memory encode the distance and direction (that is, the vector) between an agent and items in its environment. Such vectorial information provides a powerful basis for spatial cognition by representing the geometric relationships between the self and the external world. Here, we review the explicit encoding of vectorial information by neurons in and around the hippocampal formation, far from the sensory periphery. The parahippocampal, retrosplenial and parietal cortices, as well as the hippocampal formation and striatum, provide a plethora of examples of vector coding at the single neuron level. We provide a functional taxonomy of cells with vectorial receptive fields as reported in experiments and proposed in theoretical work. The responses of these neurons may provide the fundamental neural basis for the (bottom-up) representation of environmental layout and (top-down) memory-guided generation of visuospatial imagery and navigational planning.
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