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5 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation

   Bowler and Losonczy · Neuron · 2023

   Imaging entorhinal axons in hippocampal area CA1 of mice navigating virtual reality, the study found medial and lateral inputs carry different but overlapping spatial and non-spatial information.

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   1. UncheckedIn mice, axons from both medial and lateral entorhinal cortex carry distinct but overlapping signals about task, location and context.“We uncover distinct yet overlapping representations of task, location, and context in both MEC and LEC axons.”
   2. UncheckedIn mice, medial entorhinal axons in CA1 carried highly location- and context-specific codes, while lateral entorhinal inputs were biased by current navigational goals.“MEC transmitted highly location- and context-specific codes; LEC inputs were biased by ongoing navigational goals.”
   3. UncheckedIn mice running tasks with reliable reward locations, position could be accurately read out from either medial or lateral entorhinal inputs to CA1.“However, during tasks with reliable reward locations, the animals' position could be accurately decoded from either subregion.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Formation of cognitive maps in large-scale environments by sensorimotor integration

   Zhao and Si · Cognitive Neurodynamics · 2025

   The authors built a neural network model of entorhinal-hippocampal circuits combining spatial and visual inputs, and simulated it in a large box maze to see how cognitive maps form.

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   1. UncheckedIn the authors' simulated model, hippocampal place units develop several irregularly spaced firing fields across a large environment.“The place units in the model form irregularly-spaced multiple fields across the environment.”
   2. UncheckedIn a simulated model, when visual inputs outweigh other inputs, hippocampal place units respond to combined cues and in a viewer-centred way.“When the strength of visual inputs is dominant, the responses of place units become conjunctive and egocentric.”