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ArticleeLife2022

Learning accurate path integration in ring attractor models of the head direction system.

Pantelis Vafidis, David Owald, Tiziano D'Albis, Richard Kempter

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Article in eLife, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Pantelis VafidisComputation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9768-0609
David OwaldInstitute of Neurophysiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7747-7884
Tiziano D'Albis *Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1585-1433
Richard Kempter *Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5344-2983

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ring attractor models for angular path integration have received strong experimental support. To function as integrators, head direction circuits require precisely tuned connectivity, but it is currently unknown how such tuning could be achieved. Here, we propose a network model in which a local, biologically plausible learning rule adjusts synaptic efficacies during development, guided by supervisory allothetic cues. Applied to the

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Models, NeurologicalSpace PerceptionCuescompartmentalized neuronneurosciencenonepath integrationpredictive codingrecurrent neural networksself-supervised learningsynaptic plasticity

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PMID35723252
PMCPMC9286743

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