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Rolls, Edmund T. (2021) Neurons including hippocampal spatial view cells, and navigation in primates including humans. Hippocampus, 31 (6). pp. 2149-2156. doi:10.1002/hipo.23324 ISSN 1050-9631.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23324
Abstract
A new theory is proposed of mechanisms of navigation in primates including humans in which spatial view cells found in the primate hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus are used to guide the individual from landmark to landmark. The navigation involves approach to each landmark in turn (taxis), using spatial view cells to identify the next landmark in the sequence, and does not require a topological map. Two other cell types found in primates, whole body motion cells, and head direction cells, can be utilized in the spatial view cell navigational mechanism, but are not essential. If the landmarks become obscured, then the spatial view representations can be updated by self‐motion (idiothetic) path integration using spatial coordinate transform mechanisms in the primate dorsal visual system to transform from egocentric to allocentric spatial view coordinates. A continuous attractor network or time cells or working memory is used in this approach to navigation to encode and recall the spatial view sequences involved. I also propose how navigation can be performed using a further type of neuron found in primates, allocentric‐bearing‐to‐a‐landmark neurons, in which changes of direction are made when a landmark reaches a particular allocentric bearing. This is useful if a landmark cannot be approached. The theories are made explicit in models of navigation, which are then illustrated by computer simulations. These types of navigation are contrasted with triangulation, which requires a topological map. It is proposed that the first strategy utilizing spatial view cells is used frequently in humans, and is relatively simple because primates have spatial view neurons that respond allocentrically to locations in spatial scenes. An advantage of this approach to navigation is that hippocampal spatial view neurons are also useful for episodic memory, and for imagery.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QP Physiology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Neurons , Neurons -- Computer simulation, Episodic memory , Hippocampus (Brain), Hippocampus (Brain) -- Computer simulation , Navigation -- Data processing | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Hippocampus | ||||||||
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc., | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1050-9631 | ||||||||
Official Date: | June 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 31 | ||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 2149-2156 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1002/hipo.23324 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 March 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 April 2021 |
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