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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Thalamocortical processing of the head-direction sense

   Peyrache, Duszkiewicz, Viejo and Ángeles-Durán · Progress in Neurobiology · 2019

   This review describes how head-direction cells in the thalamus and cortex keep a stable activity pattern across brain states, and suggests this signal may support spatial maps and sleep-related memory.

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   1. UncheckedHead-direction neurons appear driven more by internal wiring and dynamics than by sensory input, with information flowing bottom-up even in sleep.“These observations suggest that HD neurons are certainly more driven by intrinsic wiring and dynamics than by sensory inputs and that the information flows bottom-up, even during sleep.”
   2. UncheckedThalamic head-direction cells send a highly reliable, near-noiseless signal that shapes cortical spatial maps and may aid sleep-dependent memory.“Altogether, thalamic HD cells convey a highly reliable, near-noiseless signal that broadly influences the emergence of spatial maps in the cortex and may play a key role in sleep-dependent memory processes.”